Re: [SAGE] Are cheap SSL certificates legitimate?

["Philip J. Hollenback" <philiph@pobox.com>]

On 01/19/07, Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
> We've switched to certs from Comodo (www.instantssl.com), which are
> much less expensive then those from Verisign (I think they are $70
> for a two year cert.)  The main problem has been that not all
> browsers "trust" these certs; you have to install on your server an
> certificate chain file that adds this trust level.  Not difficult,
> just another thing to deal with.

rapidssl.com (the source of the certs that namecheap.com resells)
makes a big deal about their single source certificates
(http://www.rapidssl.com/ssl-certificate-support/ssl-faq.htm) and
clams they work in all modern browsers without any changes.  My
testing supports that claim.  Plus since namecheap.com sells the certs
for less than $15/each per year that seems like a better deal than the
Comodo certs unless I am missing something.

The only thing I wonder is if this is some sort of introductory price
and they will go up to $70/year later on.

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Philip J. Hollenback
www.hollenback.net