Korean Government to Mandate SSL Certificates

Text Source: Compliance & Privacy

Starting January 1, 2007, any businesses in Korea collecting personal information on-line or conducting e-commerce transactions will be mandated to run SSL certificates in the server side. While the client certificates mainly for personal Internet banking and on-line purchases by individuals have been widely and almost ubiquitously used as already mandated by the government, there have been very little adoptions of server certificates meaning this new legislation will be a major shift in the government policy in Korea to drive major adoptions of server certificates. With this legislation, the Korean Government expects on-line businesses in Korea to have 10K new certificates installed by the end of this year and additional 40K within Year 2007.