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Device Certificate Service
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The need to authenticate all hardware devices
accessing networked services is increasing as businesses continually
strive to prevent unintended devices from gaining access to protected
networks and services.
The VeriSign® Device Certificate Service makes
it fast, efficient, and cost-effective to embed X.509 certificates into
any type of hardware devices such as cable modems, set-top boxes, Digital-Cable-Ready
televisions, or WiMAX-compliant subscriber stations. The X.509-standard
certificates embedded in the hardware devices enable service providers
such as cable operators to perform strong authentication of their distributed
devices used by their subscribers. The certificate-based authentication
prevents any rogue device employed by unauthorized users from accessing
services such as cable network based VOIP, digital media content, or
broadband service.
With the VeriSign Device Certificate Service—which
is completely hosted at VeriSign’s 24x7 secure data center facility—device
manufacturers get a turnkey solution for generating batches of digital
certificates and private keys through an easy-to-use Web interface and
are therefore not required to master X.509-based certificate security
technology or invest in expensive infrastructure. Device manufacturers
order certificates in bulk by providing VeriSign with a list of MAC
addresses or unique device IDs for the certificates. VeriSign securely
returns the issued certificates encrypted to the manufacturers, who
can then incorporate the process of injecting the certificates into
the target devices as part of its overall device manufacturing process.
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