The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia

Third Party Certification(TPC) is one of the methods to provide confident and satisfaction to customers to surf the website. Through the implementation of TPC programme, people will ensure that their information traveled over Internet reaches the intended recipients and is safe from intruders because of the increased phishing and spoofing attacks on the internet. The most famous application of third party certification programme in Malaysia is provided by the MSC Trustgate.com Sdn.Bhd.

MCS Trustgate.com Sdn Bhd was established in 1999 as a licensed Certificate Authority ( CA ) which issues digital certificate to provide verification that the website does indeed represent its company. It is operating within the Multimedia Super Corridor. The objective of MSC Trustgate .com is to secure the open network communications from both locally and across the ASEAN region. It offers complete security solutions and leading trust services that needed by all the categories. As a CA, Trustgate’s core business is to provide digital certification services, including digital certificates, and cryptographic products, Managed PKI, Personal ID, My Trust, MyKad ID, Managed Security Services, VeriSign Certified Training and Application Development.

MyKad PKI ( MyKey )

MyKey is the MSC Trustgate.com Sdn. Bhd.'s Digital Certificate which is MyKad PKI solution that works with your physically MyKad. It is class 2 certificate and has 1024-bit key length. When a document digitally signed with MyKey is treated as a legal binding document as it is with a handwritten signature. It provide highest protection for your data and transaction online with reliance limit for fraud protection.

VeriSign is the leading Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Authority enabling secure e-commerce, communications, and interactions for Web sites, intranets, and extranets. VeriSign gives confidence to consumers because they can conveniently and securely log-in to their accounts to use online services.

VeriSign will review the credentials and check through all the background of organization to ensure that the claim of organization before issuing any server certificate. The browser will verify its business purpose through ID automatically when browser connects to a legitimate site with VeriSign SSL Certificates. After that, information received by Web visitor is identical to encryption between browser and server and no modification is taken place.

Related link:

http://www.msctrustgate.com/

http://www.mykey.com.my/Website/home.php

http://www.verisign.com/