which SSL certificate for apache?

[littleguru]

You can check tucows also .
www.tucows.com

Fraser Campbell wrote:

>On September 8, 2004 02:58 pm, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>>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.
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>As long as common browsers (read vast majority) support the certificate 
>authority then there should be no difference from a user's perspective.
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>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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