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What is the Symantec (Symantec) SSL certificate?

SSL certificate is one of the digital certificates, which is mainly used to encrypt the data transmission of Web websites and provide HTTPS for Web websites for visitors to visit.

The SSL certificate is audited and issued by CA institutions, and the SSL certificates issued by different CA institutions naturally have different brands. Symantec Certificate (Symantec Certificate) is one of the CA institutions that issue SSL certificates.

Symantec (Symantec) is currently the largest digital certificate authority in the world and one of the most trusted brands of SSL certificates. Founded in 1982, Symantec is headquartered in California, has branches in more than 40 countries and regions, and has global sales of more than $5 billion in 2006. As the Symantec brand entered China earlier, the brand awareness of Symantec in China is relatively high.

Why are the prices of Symantec certificates higher?

If you have ever purchased a SSL certificate, or if you have known about a SSL certificate, you should be able to find that Symantec certificates are the most expensive compared to other SSL certificate brands. Take the most common OV certificate as an example, the following is the price comparison between the Symantec brand and the GlobalSign brand.

So what's the price?

Brand is the most important factor, and the price of well-known brands must be the highest. In the SSL certificate industry, Symentec certificate brand is the most well-known brand, just like Nike. Therefore, the brand added value of Symantec is the highest, and the price is naturally more expensive.

But is Symantec's certificate the best? How should we judge whether a SSL certificate is good or not?

In fact, we can judge from several aspects to judge whether the brand of SSL certificate is good or not.

Compatibility

Compatibility is the most important indicator of SSL certificates. Compatibility is whether the SSL certificate is compatible with all browsers. If users can access the website normally with PC browsers, but not with mobile browsers, then there will be a big problem. Therefore, compatibility with all browsers is the minimum standard for SSL certificates.

Most certificate brands are compatible with all major browsers, but some CA will not be supported by some browsers before their root certificates are fully rooted. It is inevitable that it can be accessed normally in IE browsers, but not in Apple browsers.

If you choose a well-known brand manufacturer, there will be no worries in this regard.

Stability.

The stability of certificates is also one of the factors. This is related to the technical strength of CA manufacturers, well-known brand manufacturers have accumulated many years of technical experience, in technical strength is bound to be better than other brand manufacturers. But from another point of view, the SSL certificate is an international standard, and all issued SSL certificates must comply with this international standard, so in fact, all CA manufacturers can meet this international standard, otherwise they will not be able to issue available SSL certificates. Therefore, in terms of certificate stability, in fact, the gap between the various certificate brands is not big.

Access speed

In fact, the real gap between big brand manufacturers and small brand manufacturers is the speed of access. When users visit a HTTPS site, they will actually verify that the SSL certificate of the site is valid. This service is called the OCSP service. Big brands can invest more hardware equipment and set up multi-OCSP service nodes in all parts of the world to respond to users' requests.

Let's take Baidu as an example. Baidu has about 1 billion visits a day, so OCSP services also have to bear such a high number of visits. Without enough hardware equipment to support, it is impossible to achieve, the real gap between big brands and small brands actually lies in this. The following is the SSL certificate used by Baidu and Taobao. The two Internet giants have chosen the GlobalSign certificate at the same time.

After reading this article, I believe you have a certain understanding of what the Symantec SSL certificate is, want to know more about it, welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!

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