> I looked at that site:
>
> http://www.rapidsslonline.com/rapidssl-certificates.php
>
> ... for a "single root certificate".  I will have to learn what
> that means and how it applies to a site.  Does that certify all
> pages https://www.pdxlinux.org/*  ?

single root means that the certificate you get is directly trusted by a 
certificate that is in most browsers.  lots of other cheap certs have to 
use an intermediate certficiate authority to get to a directly trusted 
cert (which isn't very hard to setup, but a pain none the less).

if you get a cert for www.pdxlinux.org, then all urls using 
www.pdxlinux.org would be protected.  you can also use the cert for smtp, 
pop, imap, ftp, etc for the hostname www.pdxlinux.org.  the cert will not 
protect a url with just pdxlinux.org in the url.  the certs from godaddy 
require the intermediate cert, but are setup to work for both the 
www.domaim.com and domain.com formats.  i've been poking at rapidsslonline 
to add that feature in, but haven't gotten any buy in from them yet.
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