If you use openSSL, you can become your own certificate authority, and issue your own certificates for no cost. The only real downside is that your certificate isn't "trusted", so people will be presented with a warning the first time they visit the site. If they accept the certificate, then they won't see the warning again. With a "trusted" certificate, the users wouldn't see this warning.
O'Riely has a book on OpenSSl - you can borrow mine if you'd like. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis Sloan Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 5:33 PM To: CLUG General Subject: [clug-talk] SSL certificate costs Does anyone have experience buying SSL certs for use with web-based mail services? Just wondering what the going rates are, who the good providers are, and if there are cheap/do-it-yourself options available? In particular, I'm thinking of using 128-bit. Feel free to add if I'm missing out on some SSL fundamentals. Thanks, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
