Learn more

IMPORTANT: Certigna products will be gradually removed from the catalog by the end of the year 2024. On September 20, the SSL, client server and certain stamps ranges will disappear. Consult our online communication which presents the actions implemented by TBS (in particular the choice of replacement products) to facilitate this transition.

Understanding technical terms used in SSL is essential. Here you can learn more about:

• The additional licence purchase
• The certificate free reissue
  

Additional licence purchase

Depending on your needs or your technical pool, you may need to buy additionnal certificates or licences.

NOTA: Certigna's certificates can be installed on an unlimited number of machines.

• Physical machine: Electricaly connected machine
• Virtual machine: In process machine

Several configuration can be encountered:

• Active / Active
• Active / Inactive
• Back-up site
• Several virtual machines on one physical machine

A digital certificate reissue:

A new certificate can be reissued in substitution of an existing one with the same fields but a different pair of keys*.

Warning : Certigna certificates can only be reissued during the 3 months following the issuance.

That can be done in those situations:

• A certificate loss after a hard disk failure
• A software switching
• The modification of the key sizes
• The vulnerability of the privet key
• The upgrating of the signature from MD5 to SHA1

*pair of keys: Item privet key / public key elements: if a new pair of keys is needed a new CSR has to be requested.

The SSL certificate is trusted if it is signed by a "trusted" or pre-installed root certificate.