Using an SSL certificate, you can create a secure connection between
your website and its visitors. This allows you to securely collect
information from the visitors to your site or to display secure
information to them.
If you would like to have a web site secured via SSL, you must obtain a
secure site certificate from a trusted third party and a unique IP address
from us for your domain. We can help you obtain the secure site
certificate from our partner, Thawte.com.
If you wish to provide your own secure certificate, LuxSci will
provide you with a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and you can purchase
or generate the certificate and give it to us and we will install it on
our web servers. Note that in this case, you are completely responsible
for obtaining and renewing your certificate.
If you wish LuxSci to provide your secure certificate for you, you will
pay us and we will coordinate with Thawte.com to purchase and renew your
certificates. All you will have to do is, perhaps, verify your identity
and ownership of your domain with Thawte. This method involves the least
work for you and ensures that your certificate will never expire without
your permission.
If you have us order the certificate for you from Thawte, we will order
an "SSL123" certificate from them; this is very fast and easy to obtain (1
day). This certificate includes: 128-bit capable encryption, domain check
and validation, and highest-in-industry browser compatibility.
LuxSci allows you to (optionally) have separate web site locations for
the secure and insecure versions of your web site for maximum
flexibility.