I have been using the GeoTrust certs on several high traffic sites (millions of hits a day) and have had no complaints, issues, or prompts with them at all. >From what I understand GeoTrust bought Equifax and is using them because they are a top-level CA. They don't run through Thawte as far as I can tell. Dave
David Livingston Network Admin 214-871-9117 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Pete Freitag [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 1:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SSL for $29 The reason people still by Verisign is so they can have that verisign logo on their site, their customers recognize it, and trust it. Also The CA's are different on the cheaper certs, looks like GeoTrust uses Thawte as the root CA, and then it uses "Equifax Secure E-Business CA-2" as a second level CA. It is possible that the second CA will not be recognized by your browser, your clients might get a message saying that the cert's source could not be verified. I don't know how many browsers recognize that CA, it looks like anyone who has updated their browser certs after 1999 will be ok, which is probably a very high percentage. does anyone using GeoTrust ever have customers report that they are getting such messages? (The SSL would still work fine, they would just get a warning) _____________________________________________ Pete Freitag CTO, CFDEV.COM http://www.cfdev.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: SSL for $29 Thought I'd pass this along: After learning of it on CF-Talk, I've been buying Geotrust certs from http://rackshack.net for US$49. They just lowered the price to ***US$29***. Since GeoTrust still retails for US$119 my margins just got thicker :D I don't know how Verisign and Thawte can survive this sort of price competition without answering back with something other than words, which is all they've done so far. --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
