The x.509 certificate can be used for many purposes, such as: electronic signature, two factor authentication, client authentication, email signing and encryption and many other applications.
The most common and most frequently used purposes can be included using further layers of security protocols and cryptographic algorithms, the most common of which are:
Digi-CA™ has been verified to comply with more than 70+ standards and here is a list of the most commonly requested standards that Digi-CA™ complies with:
| Digi-CA™ standard compliance list | ||
| RSA Public Key Cryptography Standards | PKCS#1, PKCS#3, PKCS#5, PKCS#7, PKCS#8, PKCS#9, PKCS#10, PKCS#11, PKCS#12 | |
| Internet Engineering Task Force RFC standards or standard candidates | RFC 373, RFC 1231, RFC 1422, RFC 2246, RFC 2315, RFC 2459, RFC 2510, RFC 2527, RFC 2560, RFC 2587, RFC 2630, RFC 2634, RFC 2818, RFC 2898, RFC 2986, RFC 3039, RFC 3161, RFC 3279, RFC 3280, RFC 3628, RFC 3629, RFC 3647, RFC 3739, RFC 4514, RFC 5280 | |
| US Federal Information Processing Standards | FIPS 46, FIPS 180-2, FIPS 186-2, FIPS 197, FIPS 198 | |
| European Telecommunications Standards Institute standards | ETSI TS 102 280, ETSI TS 102 042, ETSI TS 102 040, ETSI TS 102 023, ETSI TS 101 861 | |
| CEN Workshop Agreement standards | CWA 14167-1, CWA 14172 (1-8) | |
| ISO & Other standards | ITU X.509, ITU-T X.520, ISO 27001, ISO 7816 Parts (1 – 5), ISO 7816 (Parts 7 – 9), ISO 15408, GridPMA, EAL4, EAL4+, XKMS XML, NIST SP 800-38C, NIST SP 800-38B, NIST SP 800-90 | |
Digi-SSL™ and Digi-Code™ certificates require browser compatibility. Digi-ID™ certificates require browser compatibility and also compatibility with Adobe® PDF whilst email software compatibility is required when being using Digi-Mail™ certificates.
The following is a list of browsers that are compatible with Digi-SSLs™, Digi-Codes™ and Digi-ID™ certificates:
The following is a list of browsers that are compatible with the certificates used for Digi-Mail™: