which SSL certificate for apache?

[Fraser Campbell]

On September 8, 2004 02:58 pm, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> In Canada, there is http://www.soltrus.com - partially owned by
> Verisign. AFAIK Verisign prefers if that sort of business for Canadian
> companies is done rather through Soltrus, not through them.

Wow, Verisign really owns the marget.  We use Thawte and have for a few years, 
Thawte is also owned by Verisign.  The advantage of Thawte over all the guys 
you're mentioning is price ... 199 USD for a 1 year 128bit cert IIRC.  I just 
looked at Soltrus and saw a price of $1199 (perhaps CDN?, see 
http://www.soltrus.com/english/products/gsid.html).  Thawte also cuts you a 
break at renewal time, I think it's 179 USD for renewals.

> If anybody would like to elaborate on this: where to buy SSL
> certificates? Where is it cheapest? Which are "best" from the point of
> view of usual web users? What I need is a certificate with which
> Canadian banks will have no problem as well.

As long as common browsers (read vast majority) support the certificate 
authority then there should be no difference from a user's perspective.

Tucows sells GeoTrust certificates (hopefully not Verisign owned) but they 
appear to be slightly more expensive than Thawte, on the plus side Geotrust 
appears to still offer wildcards certs which is a big plus if you want to 
secure multiple names.

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