Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:59:16 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Verisign, Thawte, Entrust, whom? Message-ID: <3DB45C94.9163.204D73AE@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3DB46348.D45241C3@mindspring.com>
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On 21 Oct 2002 at 13:27, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > On 21 Oct 2002 at 13:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > > > Well, not to beat a dead horse, > > > but since we've recently chatted > > > about registrars, who do you like > > > for your SSL certs? > > > > Some friends are looking at this issue now. So far, we have settled > > on http://www.instantssl.com/ but found that http://www.freessl.com/ > > is even cheaper so will look at them closer before deciding. > > > > There's a bit of a list (from one of the vendors mind you) at > > http://www.whichssl.com/ > > The canonical answer for HTTPS: has to be: > > "Whatever vendors whose top level authorities are installed > by default in both IE and Netscape" That will vary from version to version. Newer browsers have more CA certs. When Terry mentions "vendors whose top level authorities" I think it reflects the situation where a few companies have gotten around the problem of not having aroot cert in IE/Netscape by getting one of the "established" CAs to sign an intermediate CA certificate for them. See http://www.whichssl.com/faq/intermediates.html for a bit more detail on the matter. -- Dan Langille To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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