SimpleAuthority is a fully functional 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 two factor authentication - using a technology like KeyVault for controlling access to Web resources

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. SimpleAuthority supports Windows, Mac OS-X and Linux platforms.