A verisign salesperson told me that the root cert that geotrust/equifax is using expires next summer, and verisign/thawte will likely NOT renew it. The quickssl is based on geotrust's own root, and they expect to have 95% or better browser coverage by the time the trusted root expires.
For $99(less for resellers) you get the truesite seal and 128 bit SSL using the existing trusted root cert. Truesite is just like Verisign's Site Seal. This is something they really needed. Verisign has countered with a lame 40 bit shared cert for $99 to the end user. This cert gives the customer a $99 site seal that verifies their name, and that they paid verisign for it, but the ISP's name is on the cert. That's not bad, since you can do virtual hosting with this setup, but I'm pretty sick of Verisign/NS for lots of reasons. I just tried to renew an old certificate last week, and it took 8 days to complete. Verisign wanted new "proof" that the company was who they said they were. They've had this certificate for 3 years! We'll use Geotrust since the customer can have their own 128 bit cert for the same price, now with the truesite seal too. If customers want the Verisign name, they will pay for it. Ken Pacific.Net William X Walsh wrote: > Thursday, Thursday, October 25, 2001, 2:26:28 PM, Jim Carey wrote: > > >>Well I have to say I am less than satisfied over Entrust due to the time >>period involved to obtain my cert. Do they make it so bloody hard just >>because we took advantage of the freebie offer a while ago ? >> > > Equifax's secure cert products were acquired by Geotrust. > > I previously gave them a pretty bad review months ago, when they were > still pretty new with how they were going to market their product and > included a list of things they could do to make themselves attractive > to this market. > > I have to say they listened. > > I ordered a QuickSSL Certificate this week, and I had the cert within > 10 minutes. That and other features make them a highly attractive > option. I'm inquiring about reseller/partner arrangements/pricing, > but I think this company is poised to do what I had hoped Tucows would > do to the Cert market (since they did it to the domain market). > > Turn it upside down. > >
