My domain registrar has Geotrust RapidSSL for $10 / year. Is this good enough SSL? Any other recommendations?
On Sep 8, 3:01 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 8, 7:24 am, Christian Fazzini <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello anyone used OpenSSL before? > > > Why do we need to pay for expensive SSL certs when there is OpenSSL > > which is provided free? Is there a difference? > > > I've got an ecommerce website, and wondering if OpenSSL is enough? > > > Your thoughts will be appreciated > > Openssl is a library for performing various encryption tasks, so > (other than the fact that it can manipulate them) it hasn't got much > to do with ssl certs. The problem with a self signed cert (which > openssl can generate for you) or something like a cacert is that most > users won't have the root certificate on their machine so will see a > 'untrusted certificate' warning when they visit your site (and of > course this also means that you're open to a man in the middle type > attack) > > Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
