On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:51, Todd Ellner wrote: > Sorry to ask this question again, but I've been having trouble with the > archives, and my Windows machine (which had my old mail) just died in an > interesting fashion. > > Quickly, the company I work for wants to buy some SSL certificates for a > couple web servers and an application server. We looked at Verisign on > the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" and because of the nice, > seamless way it embeds itself into the client's browser. Their price per > certificate was high, but not too bad. Then we saw the price per license > that you have to buy for each additional server that is using that > single certificate. The money people said "You have to be kidding." > > So, what are some good alternatives? We are currently looking at Thawte, > Baltimore, DST and Equifax. > > Any suggestions? Any preferences? Web browsers come already populated with many more cert from "root" CAs than Verisign; don't feel compelled to buy from them for that reason. I've bought SSL certs from InstantSSL/Comodo for the last couple of years--they're only $50/yr. The only hitch is that you have to install their intermediary CA cert, but it's a one-liner in Apache. Wil -- Wil Cooley wcooley@private Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * * * * Linux, UNIX, Networking and Security Solutions * * * * * Tired of spam and viruses in your e-mail? Get the * * Naked Ape Mail Defender! http://nakedape.cc/r/maildefender *
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