Actually it's more in the range of US$1000. I looked on
the site and saw a $100,000 figure you may have been
reacting to, but it appears to be an insurance/coverage
figure.
Many of the CAs preconfigured in browsers seem to be
there not as retail CAs such as verisign, but as large
interests, ISPs, etc, who bought their way in, and sign
certificates for hosting customers or as part of other
commercial services.
Quoting Phil Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm trying to find a cost-effective way to get someone
to sign my CA. In
> order for it to be worth spending money on, it should
be someone who's CA
> is already in the major browsers. Thawte seems to
want to charge
> US$100,000 per year. Of course, they're not sure how
much it will cost in
> the future given their acquisition by Verisign -- and
I can't see that
> Verisign has any such program where they'll sign your
CA.
>
> I see entities like GTE, Deutsche, Entrust, Equifax,
American Express, and
> others have their CAs in at least Netscape browsers.
Do any of you use any
>
> of these companies to sign your CA? Do any of them do
it at a reasonable
> price? I'd like to avoid the hassle of renewing and
paying for all our
> Verisign web server certs every year or so, but
getting our own local CA
> into all users' browsers would cause just too much
chaos. Anybody find a
> good solution?
>
>
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