[ale] CA suggestion...

[Brian J. Dowd]

Any names of the smaller CA's? Have you used any of them?
-Brian

> Mike Millson wrote:
>
>> In my opinion, this is one of the bigger rip-offs out there. You're
>> basically paying for the company's name. I don't think there are any
>> technical differences between a self generated certificate and one you
>> buy.
>>
>> I would never buy Verisign. Thawte is owned by Versign. It's the same
>> certificate w/ a different name, so save yourself some money and buy
>> Thawte.
>>
>> I have only purchased Thawte, so I don't know what others are out there,
>> but if you're going to be selling something online, I wouldn't go w/ a
>> no-name company. Technically they may be fine, but people may perceive
>> your site as being insecure because you're not ponying up to Verisign or
>> Thawte.
>
>
> Taking the Internet community as a whole, you should be ok. I doubt that
> most users on the Internet realize what a rootCA is. As long as you 
> purchase a certificate from a CA who has their rootcertificate 
> installed in the commodity browsers (IE, Safari, Mozilla, Netscape), 
> you should be safe. In *MY* opinion, I think the smaller CAs hold more 
> merit than the larger ones.
>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:03, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
>>
>>> Other than self-signing, does anyone know of any other public CA's
>>> which are more reasonable in price? I have no idea what you're 
>>> getting that's worth these prices...
>>> -Brian
>>>
>>> Thawte:
>>>     1 year 40-bit: $199
>>>     2 year 40-bit: $349
>>>     1 year 128-bit: $449
>>>     2 year 128-bit: $849
>>>
>>> Verisign
>>>     1 year 40-bit: $349
>>>     2 year 40-bit: $598
>>>     1 year 128-bit: $895
>>>     2 year 128-bit: $1595
>>>
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