[ale] CA suggestion...

[James P. Kinney III]

Check out: http://www.whichssl.org/

The rootCA stuff is a scam. A few companies paid $$ to some browser
makers to get their cert built in. Since no has to do anything to get
the browser to acknowledge the cert is "trusted", they get to charg
whatever they want for the "service" of signing your cert.

It's sort of like the opposite of being too much of a jerk to have real
friends so you pay people to hang around you.

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 12:23, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> 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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