* 128-bit Global Server IDs are a form of Digital ID, the electronic counterpart to driver's licenses, passports, and business licenses. You can present a Digital ID electronically to prove your identity or your right to access information or services online. VeriSign 128-bit Global Server IDs enable your site to conduct authenticated, strongly encrypted on-line commerce. Customers will be able to submit information to your site with the assurance that they are doing business with you (not an impostor's "spoof" of your site) and that the information they are sending to you cannot be intercepted or decrypted by anyone else.

Technically, Digital IDs, also known as digital certificates, bind the identity of your organization to a pair of electronic keys that can be used to encrypt and sign digital information. A Digital ID makes it possible to verify someone's claim that they have the right to use a given key, helping to prevent people from using phony keys to impersonate other users. Used in conjunction with encryption, Digital IDs provide a complete security solution, assuring the identity of one or all parties involved in a transaction.

A Digital ID is issued by a trusted third party called a Certification Authority (CA) - in this case, VeriSign. CAs establish the identity of the people or organizations to which they issue Digital IDs. Once a CA has established an organization's identity, it issues a certificate that contains that organization's public key.