[ale] Where to buy an SSL Certificate?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Except as noted in my previous response Digicert is relatively new on the scene or it would have already been in bundles shipped May 2011 but wasn't.   Browsers are NOT the only thing that look for SSL serts.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy T. Bouse
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:47 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Where to buy an SSL Certificate?

On 27.02.2014 09:31, Brian Mathis wrote:
> For any CA that your software doesnt know about, you generally just
> need to configure the intermediate cert bundle along with your sites
> actual cert, and the cert should validate with no issues.
>

Actually most any CA you're going to have to deploy an intermediate certificate if you've gotten a certificate in the last decade. Most every CA I know of has a root cert with a very long expiration that is placed in all the browsers by default and then they use an intermediate CA certificate that has something around a 5-7 year expiration to allow them to change it out more frequently without the burden of replacing the root CA in the browsers. I know I've required this from Verisign as far back as '03 so it's not something new just because "software doesn't know about it"
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