The Application of Third Party Certification in Malaysia
Third Party Certificate (TPC) is a very new term to everyone i guess. What is Third party Certificate actually? A TPC endorsement has been used as one of the technique to implant customer's trust when doing online transaction using the internet. The implementation of TPC is very significant because the customers has a tendency to trust brand names. Thus, to increase customer's trust and eliminating the doubt in customer's mind is by getting a SSL certificate.
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. It is a protocol created by Netscape to make sure that there is a secure and safe transactions between web servers and browsers. In addition, it enables information to transmit back and forth securely. Applications that use the SSL protocol certainly know how to send and receive encryption keys with other applications, as well as how to encrypt and decrypt data sent between the two.
The SSL certificate is a digital certificate. It is a small data file that digitally shows the organization's details such as the domain name or server name, the company name and its location as well as the company contacts detail. This certificate is issued from a trusted Certificate Authorization The protocol uses a third party, a Certificate Authority (CA), to identify one end or both end of the transactions. Globalsign is one of the most trusted certificate authorities.
In Malaysia, the most well-known certicate authority (CA) is MSC TRUSTGATE.COM SDN BHD. MSC TRUSTGATE has started since 1999 to meet the rapid growth of the open network communications and become the catalyst for the growth of e-commerce of both locally and across the ASEAN region. MSC TRUSTGATE provides 5 main services which are Mytrust, SSL certificate,Digital Encryption, managed PKI and SSL VPN.
Furthermore, there is another product introduced by MSC TRUSTGATE - MyKey. MyKey, is the MyKad PKI solution that works with our physically MyKad, which allows us to authenticate ourselves online and to sign documents or transactions digitally and is accepted by the Malaysian government. Any action that uses the MyKey is legally bind by the individual.
Verisign is another example that offers SSL certificate. SSL is a trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. It provides authentication and verification of businesses worldwide. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world to engage in trusted communications and commerce. Below is a link to youtube where there is a video that demostrates how to put purchase a SSL certificate from Verisign.com
In conclusion, why there are millions and billions of online sellers that applied the 3rd party certificate is because they wanna enhance the confidence of their consumers and clients during the transactions. Having or not a SSL certificate makes a significant different for the consumers because with a SSL certificate, it means that the website is safe and secure. Consumers will be more willing to deal with websites that have such certificates. Hence, there are many websites out there that sells goods and services have this SSL certificate.
If you are planning to do e-Commerce, do remember to purchase one ;p
