Verisign was founded in 1995 as a spin-off of the RSA Security certification services business. The new company served as a certificate authority (CA) and its initial mission was "providing trust for the Internet and Electronic Commerce through our Digital Authentication services and products."
Prior to selling its certificate business to Symantec in 2010, Verisign had more than 3,000,000 certificates in operation for everything from military to financial services and retail applications, making it the largest CA behind the encryption and authentication on the Internet, which most people recognize as the small padlock icon in their Web browser when shopping online.
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VeriSign provides solutions that allow companies and consumers to engage in communications and commerce online with confidence. With more than one million web servers using their SSL certificates, an infrastructure that processes more than two billion certificate checks daily, and a logo that is seen up to 650 million times a day, the VeriSign seal is the most recognized symbol of trust on the Internet - helping businesses everywhere get more conversions and, thus, more revenue.
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