ECDSA SSL certificates are a breakthrough in website security. By using a smaller key size, they improve website performance, while reducing the burden placed on a website’s hosting service. Billion times more secure than RSA SSL certificates, they are particularly recommended to online businesses, large organizations or public bodies. If you are currently using another type of certificate, replace it with the netartSSL Premium ECDSA certificate as soon as possible.
Ensure all your websites are safe and secure
After logging in to CloudHosting Panel you can check whether connections with all your sites are encrypted. From the WWW and FTP menu, choose SSL Certificates, and then make sure that the list of domain names without the SSL certificate protection is empty. If it contains any Internet addresses, click ‘Activate SSL certificate’ next to a domain name. In a few seconds the netartSSL Premium certificate with ECDSA encryption will be enabled for this domain name.
Is the connection with a website encrypted?
If you want to check whether the connection with a currently visited web page is encrypted, simply look at the web browser’s address bar. If you can see a padlock symbol or https:// instead of http://, you are using a secure connection on which no one can eavesdrop. If you click the padlock, you can also verify who issued the certificate, for which website, and when it expires.
The ECDSA algorithm and its advantages
Two types of SSL certificates are commonly used on the Internet today: RSA and ECDSA. To determine the stronger of these types, scientists simulated long-term attacks designed to compromise these security measures. For both the algorithms it was observed that if a longer key was used, more time was needed to break it. However, a significant difference between RSA and ECDSA was revealed: a much shorter ECDSA key, as opposed to an RSA key, requires many times longer period to break. In addition, a longer ECDSA key did not increase the load placed on server resources. For these reasons, ECDSA was chosen as a natural RSA’s successor. What does this mean for website owners? If you are using netartSSL Premium ECDSA certificates, you can be sure that a higher level of security will not compromise your website’s performance, as would be the case with RSA. What should be emphasized is that ECDSA certificates already conform to government data security standards published by public bodies such as the National Security Agency (the U.S.) and the Federal Office for Information Security (Germany), and they also comply with current industry requirements.
netartSSL Premium certificates with ECDSA encryption
The netartSSL Premium certificate with ECDSA P-384 encryption ensure a security level of up to 7680 bits, while commercially available RSA certificates offer a security level of only 2048 bits. To illustrate how much additional protection is provided by the netartSSL Premium certificate, let us assume that a 2048-bit RSA key is a grain of sand. For such proportions, the security level of the ECDSA P-384 key based on the elliptic curve cryptography will amount to more than the number of grains of sand on Earth! The difference is therefore quite noticeable at first sight.
Replace your current certificate with an ECDSA certificate
If you are selling goods online, publish a large blog, or manage a complex portal, you should make sure that your website not only loads fast but also guarantees the highest possible level of security for its users. As a matter of fact, the website loading time and the adequate security are important also for any other website, which is why the netartSSL Premium certificate is currently the most popular certificate offered by netart.com. If you are using an RSA certificate or have no website protection at all, go to https://www.netart.com/gb/ssl-certificate/ and order the netartSSL Premium certificate, the one recommended to all website owners.
