Editor: SimpleAuthority is a Certification Authority, or Certificate Authority (CA), that is designed to be very easy to use. It generates and manages keys and certificates that provide cryptographic digital identities for people and/or computer servers. These identities are designed to be used in other applications such as for:
* secure email - for digital signing and encryption of email
* document signing - including PDF, Word and OpenOffice documents
* VPN access - to provide a much higher level of security than username/password access
* client SSL authentication - to control access to an online service such as a Subversion repository or wiki
* server SSL authentication - to authenticate a Web server to people within a known community
* code signing - including Java archives, Windows executables, etc.