Just as in the real world, where a driver's license or passport is used to verify our identity, in the online world a digital certificate is used to verify our identity as we bank, shop, and exchange information online with others.

CryptClient™ Digital-ID Certificates provide privacy, security, encryption, and identity assurance to protect the user's email communications and data files, and provide secure information exchanges between the user's web browser or email program, and commercial, healthcare, or other websites.



CryptGuard CryptClient™ certificates are premium, industry-standard, X509v3 digital certificates, enabling high-grade, ultra-secure, 128-bit/256-bit-encryption‡ for all-inclusive commercial and personal use.

There are three main reasons for making use of personal digital certificates:
• identity verification • security • privacy

Identity Verification
Whether it's your family, your bank, the friends you chat with online, your educational institution or your favorite on-line store such as Ebay, Amazon or Paypal, you need to know that the person you're communicating with is indeed who you think it is, and that the documents or information you're exchanging are protected against tampering and eavesdropping. This is what digital certificates from CryptGuard can help ensure.

Business has been using this technology for years to protect commercial communications. Digital certificates used by eCommerce websites enable users to securely send their personal or credit card information to the website to enable online purchases and other transactions.

Personal digital certificates provide that same confidentiality, security, and trust to the general public for all of their private communications.

Protection Against Tampering
Using digital certificates is a lot like shrinkwrapping a letter - once it's sealed, if someone tampers with it, it's easy to detect the torn shrinkwrapping. In the case of an email, if someone intercepts and changes the contents of the email, the moment the message is altered it breaks the digital signature.

Protection Against Eavesdropping
Unencrypted emails are like post-cards, readable by everyone. When using digital certificates to encrypt the email, it's like the letter is sealed inside a lockbox, encased in a block of cement, and transported in an armoured truck.

Special Protection For Minors Against Online Predators
When your son or daughter is chatting online, how do they know that the person they're talking to is really who they claim to be? Personal Digital Certificates can be used to validate the true identity of everyone/anyone they communicate with.

• Please refer to our GuardianAngel™ section for complete information about this special digital identification initiative.
  

CryptGuard is the only Certification Authority currently offering a 5-year personal digital certificate.

• When you obtain a driver's license, it is usually valid for 5 years. When you are issued a passport, it too is usually valid for 5 years. So when you apply for a personal certificate - which is digital identification - it makes sense that it should also be valid for 5 years.
  


• CryptGuard offers several term packages as we recognize that each individual has their own unique needs and requirements. Certificate license validity periods of 1, 2, 3, and 5 years are offered, making truly-affordable and effective personal online security available to everyone.
  

Certificates may be used with email clients (eg: Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora), web browsers (eg: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netscape), instant messaging clients (eg: AOL, Jabber), and PayPal's "Encrypted Website Payments" system.

CryptGuard offers FREE replacement for the duration of the license, in the event your certificate is ever lost, stolen, or destroyed.

1-year $20.00

2-year $35.00

3-year $45.00

5-year $60.00

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Need convincing? Take one out for a spin! FREE 14-day Certificate Test-Drive

There are 7 basic steps involved in getting a personal digital certificate:

• STEP 1. Download the CryptGuard Certificate Wizard utility program..
  


• STEP 2. Generate your Cryptographic Key-Pair and Certificate Request file, using the Certificate Wizard utility.
  


• STEP 3. Register and Provide Information through forms on our website, and Upload the CSR file created in Step 2.
  


• STEP 4. Make payment for the certificate.
  


• STEP 5. A CryptGuard Verification Agent will contact you to review/verify the application.
  


• STEP 6. Send (mail/fax) Supporting Documents, as identified during the review/verification process.
  For personal certificates this is normally a copy of the applicant's driver's license, or other government-issued identification.
  


• STEP 7. Download the Certificate
  Once we have issued your certificate, you simply download it to your computer and install it.
  

We've put together an easy-to-understand description of these steps, including helpful screenshots ... FAQ — Obtaining a Personal Certificate

Notify Business & Personal Contacts

Once you have obtained your personal digital certificate, you should contact the various businesses and individuals that you conduct financial or other equally important online business with. This includes your bank, insurance company, healthcare provider, Internet Service Provider (ISP), and businesses such as eBay, PayPal, and others.

The purpose in contacting these people is to make them aware of the fact that you wish to use digital certificate secure technology to help safeguard your personal and financial information and online transactions and correspondence.

We have written a simple document template that you can use by simply cutting & pasting it's contents into your own personal letters.

• View this template document in a pop-up browser window
  
• Download the template as a plain text file to your own computer (right-mouse-click, then "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As...")