System Details

Certificate Authority System Details

[1] Digital Certificates [2] are issued and managed using a Certificate Authority or CA [3]. In the market, there are two main types of CA systems that are explained in more detail in the Digi-CA™ Manual download [4] or in the Managed CA – Digi-CA™ Service [5] and CA Software – Digi-CA™ Server [6] sub sections of the Certificate Authority online book.

Then there is the innovative CA combination that is unique to Digi-CA™ because of the principals used in the Core Design of Digi-CA™:

This unique offering is called the Shared CA: Digi-CA™ Shared

See the Digi-CA™ Flash Presentation [7] that explains the design principals that have made this innovation possible.

So with Digi-CA™ there are in fact three types of Certificate Authority system to choose from:

Managed CA: Digi-CA™ Service
Shared CA: Digi-CA™ Service
CA Software: Digi-CA™ Server [5]