[olug] which digital certificate authority?
Sam Tetherow
tetherow at nicusa.com
Mon Sep 29 16:17:10 UTC 2003
neal rauhauser wrote:
>
>
> I see that Thawte and Verislime are the most recognized sources of
> digital certificates but they're quite expensive - on the order of
> $400/year.
>
> instantssl.com has a variety of similar products and they're much
> cheaper - it appears that the $49/year product will do what I want. My
> aim is to provide an SSL encrypted web service and possibly secure POP3
> via SSL.
>
> I don't so much need the credibility of Thawte/Verisign, since this
> is basically just an enterprise's email server, I'm more interested in
> the customer paying $49 for a certificate rather than paying for a day
> of my time to decode how to set up a CA.
>
> I welcome any comments on secure http, secure pop3, digital
> certificates, or how cultivating facial hair could improve my unix skills.
>
>
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if you don't want to spend the afternoon to figure out how to do a self
signed cert for internal stuff then I think the $49/year wouldn't be
that unreasonable. But really it doesn't take much to do it, check the
mod_ssl FAQ for the quick and dirty how to (
http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC27 )
secure http is a must if you really are using security on your http site
(more than just for CCs). Same with secure pop3/imap. The only mail
secure mail setup I have done is using Cyrus IMAP/Sendmail. I haven't
played with cert authentification although I keep saying I should spend
more of my copious amounts of free time on it just to say I have done
it, who knows it may come in useful someday soon <shameless-plug> since
I'm looking for a job</shameless-plug>.
As for the facial hair, I think that is just a myth propogated by the
less hygienically inclined guru base. 8^{|}>= <-- cheap ascii art
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Director of Development
NIC Labs (PSSG) http://www.nicusa.com
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