I use StartSSL on my home firewall (pfSense) for it's SSL admin page. Awesome stuff. I started looking today into CAcert, but it was fairly easy to validate my domain and issue a cert for a webserver.
Please note that there are quite a few CA's out there that issue "free certs" but these are free as in beer, and what they provide is a 1-month eval certificate. Of course you can just renew it, but it's a PITA procedure to do every month. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff Lasman wrote: >> On Monday 12 January 2009 12:51 am, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: >> >>> In other words, instead of paying $1000+ per certificate >> >> That sounds a bit high, Roger. I don't want to sound commercial by >> posting the price for which I sell Certificates, but I certainly don't >> mind telling the group I pay somewhere around 1% of that with our enom >> contract. > > > A 3 year cert costs $995, and that's only b/c you "save" $200 from > whatever other ridiculously high price they had. So perhaps I'm not > *too* far off > > http://www.verisign.com/ssl/buy-ssl-certificates/secure-site-ssl-certificates/ > > In addition to CAcert.org, Dante listed StartSSL.org. That was a new > one and I haven't played around with it much. > > You used it, Dante? Looking at their StartSSL PKI page, I found this: > > ********************************************************* > StartSSL™ Free > StartSSL™ FreeThe StartSSL™ Free (Class 1) digital certificates are > provided by StartCom without charge. They provide modest assurances and > are meant to secure personal web sites, public forums or web mail. > Verification is done automatic and instantly by electronic means and > mostly without the interference and involvement of our personnel. > StartSSL™ Free supports: > > * Web server certificates (SSL/TLS) > * Client and mail certificates (S/MIME) > * 128/256-bit encryption > * US $ 10,000 insurance guaranteed > * Valid 365 days (1 year) > > For more information follow this link or sign up now for your StartSSL™ > account and start to enjoy free digital certification immediately! > > ********************************************************* > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
