ssl certificates are generally free. Ssl certificates that have root certificates installed in most browser costs money. Noone is forcing you to NOT use a free self-made ssl certificate and verify against your own certificate the connection.
PS: you can use send on plain http pgp encrypted payloads. Il giorno martedì 31 luglio 2012 12:34:22 UTC+2, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez ha scritto: > > mmm, you can use ssl without using a public certificate, if it's your > certificate I think you can trust it. > Secondly, you can use a valid and certified free ssl certificate, take > a look at http://www.startssl.com/ > > Regards. > > 2012/7/31 Robin Manoli <[email protected]>: > > Hey, > > I'm looking for an alternative way to encrypt data, a free way rather > than > > to pay for an ssl certificate. > > > > The case is as follows: there are two servers, one local on the office > which > > contains a database, and another public web server which needs to > > synchronize data with the local server. Using ssl I could use json or > post > > forms from the local server to the web server so the data will be > encrypted. > > > > I thought of another method however, with php I could use mycrypt with a > > secret key known by both servers. Probably this isn't as secure as ssl, > but > > in this case I'd rather not pay for the encryption rather than having a > very > > secure one. > > > > Another thought would be to just use ssl without a valid certificate... > > > > Well, I wonder how you would do this in web2py, if you in any case would > > recommend the encryption method I suggested. > > > > Thanks! > > - Robin > > > > -- > > > > > > > --
