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SSL Certificates Life Cycle

  • Role Definitions

    Jul 11, 2020

    Definitions of the Roles Involved in Applying for and Purchasing an ExtendedSSL Certificate

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  • SHA-256 Rollout

    Jul 18, 2020

    SHA-2 consists of a family of cryptographic hashing algorithms developed in part by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to replace the aging SHA-1 hashing algorithm which may have mathematical weaknesses. GlobalSign, in our role as your security partner, supported the deprecation of SHA-1 and the transition to SHA-256, the most widely supported hashing algorithm within the SHA-2 family. This article defines the important milestones for the introduction of SHA-256 Certificates and the depreciation of SHA-1 Certificates.

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  • Business Category

    Mar 21, 2020

    Please ensure you choose the correct type of business category. The majority of companies will be incorporated / registered / formed as a Private organization and therefore will be category (b).

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  • Jurisdiction of Incorporation Serial Number

    Jul 11, 2020

    Providing a Unique Serial Number to Prove Jurisdiction of Incorporation

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  • Jurisdiction of Incorporation

    Mar 21, 2020

    Jurisdiction of Incorporation Requirements for the Application

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  • Place of Business

    Mar 21, 2020

    Entering the Place of Business in the Application

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  • Doing Business As

    Mar 21, 2020

    Using a Doing Business As (Trade Name) Organization Name in the Application

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  • Upcoming TLS Domain Validation Changes – Fall 2021

    Feb 15, 2024

    Over the second half of 2021, two changes in domain validation policy will take effect, which may impact how you validate domains when issuing publicly trusted TLS certificates. These policy changes apply to all new certificate requests, renewals, re-issues and pre-validated domains. These changes will have NO IMPACT on TLS/SSL certificates that have already been issued.

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  • HTTP Domain Validation Method Policy Changes

    Feb 19, 2024

    Per Industry requirements, effective November 30th (Atlas customers) & November 28th (GCC Customers), GlobalSign will prohibit issuing wildcard or subdomain SAN certificates when the domain is validated via the HTTP Domain validation method.

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  • Deprecating the TLS/ SSL Organizational Unit (OU) field

    Feb 21, 2024

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