The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia

Users won't transact the business at the web sites unless they are certain it is secure. They need to ensure that the business is real and the communications with the company is private. Therefore, we need a 3rd party certification programme to ensure the information and transaction are being secured.

3rd party certification is the verification of the piblic or private key's holder by trusted 3rd party knowns as Certificate Authority to ensure that the websites are genuine by using digital certificate. It authenticates websites, individuals and software companies so that the consumers or people using the website can trust and rely on them.

3rd party certification programme has become increasingly important in the world of internet. The most famous 3rd party certification programme is Verisign.

Another 3rd party certification programme is MSC Trustgate which is an affiliate of Versign incorparated in year 1999, and it is Malaysia's Premier lincensed certification authority.

Verisign

The Internet Infrastuture of Verisign enables confidential information or important data to be delivered across the net safely, so that the users can do their transaction iwith confident. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate encrypts senmsitive information when people doing online transaction. Sometimes, some web sites have encrypted http connection where the user can see the "http" in URL.

A certificate authority verifies the identity of the certificate owner unique, anthenticated information containted in the certifiate. When a user points to a secure domain, SSL handshake will authenticate the web site and the user. The user can see the authenticated organization name when he click on closed padlock in the browser window or certain SSL trust marks, such as the Verisign Secure Seal.

The authenticated organiozation name is even prominently displayed in high security browser and the adddress bar will turn green when an Extended Validation SSL Certificate is detected. If the information does not match or the certificate has expired, an error massage or warning will be displayed.

I think the implementation of 3rd party certification programme can extensively improve the customers trust since the web sites they are dealing with are certified as genuine web sites. This enables them to do transaction and transfer the information without worry and their information would not revealed by outsider. Therefire, it is essential for the implementation of sduch programme in the e- commerce world.