Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> writes: > I'm setting up https for the first time. (on linux/apache) > > Is there any real difference between a $49/year 128bit ssl certificate I > can get from someplace like instantssl.com and the $895/year 128bit cert > that Verisign sells? do I even need to pay $49/yr? I know I can sign my > own but I don't want users getting browser messages about the > certificate. Interesting, hadn't found InstantSSL before. I wonder how the "sub-$50 transactions" rule is enforced? You can, however, do a lot better than $859 without getting into that sort of restrictions, too. It's more like $150 vs. $49. I'll probably sign my own, at least at first; but it's for a very restricted set of uses, where the users know me personally and are trainable enough to be able to tell their browsers to honor my certificate. For commercial use I wouldn't dream of even trying to sign my own. (I need it mostly to secure web mail.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list