RE: what certificate to buy from Verisign ?

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\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang2052\f0\fs20 Hi Jason,
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\par AS for the Certificate type you mentioned, for your scenario, since the certificate is mainly used to identitfy your server application and build a secure communication channel between client/server, I think a normal web server certificate is enough. Of course, there must has some guys from Verisign who will help you find the proper certificate for yoru application.
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\par From: <jason.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
\par Subject: what certificate to buy from Verisign ?
\par Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:52:04 -0400
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\par Hi, my company plans to use WSE2.0 sp3 to secure the webservice
\par communication between us and the client. now that we are looking at Verisign
\par on what exactly to buy but the sales person at Verisign were not very
\par helpful. and MSDN didn't provide any information on what exact certificate
\par to buy from Verisign either, all it says is get certificate from a trusted
\par CA, for example: Verisign.
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\par could someone point out which product to buy from verisign?
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\par some information on what I found so far:
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\par 1. after searched around, seems a lot of people are complaining Verisign
\par sales have no idea what to buy to encrypt and sign web services.
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\par 2. some people seem got regular SSL certificates working to encrypt and
\par sign web service request, but will there be performance issues? is it
\par recommened by Microsoft that an existing SSL certificate can be used for
\par encrypt and sign webservice requests?
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\par 3. some people in various newsgroups are talking about using the Digital ID
\par product from Verisign to encrypt and sign webservice requests,
\par (http://www.verisign.com/products-services/security-services/pki/pki-applica
\par tion/email-digital-id/index.html), this is a product from Verisign to secure
\par emails. is this correct to use Digital ID? this thing is much cheaper than
\par regular SSL certificates, only $19.99/Year
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\par Please help, thanks a lot.
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