[ale] CA suggestion...

[Ryan Matteson]

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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