[thelist] SSL Certificates
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Tue Feb 8 08:59:56 CST 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BDisbrow at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:31 AM
>
> I need to get a SSL certificate for an online store. Picking
> the appropriate
> certifcate vendor is proving somewhat confusing.
>
> Articles I have read suggest that all vendors are using
> virtually the same
> process and tools to issue and maintain certificates and that
> the only real
> difference is browser ubiquity. The higher the browser
> ubiquity the better the
> chance the customer will be successful with a given browser.
>
> Given that, most vendors I have come across are 99% or better
> with their
> browser ubiquity score. So that leaves price and performance.
Bill,
I've used certs from Thawte, Verisign, Comodo, InstantSSL and others. I can
honestly tell you I've never encountered, or had to troubleshoot for a
client, any instances of users saying that their browser was incompatible
with a certificate.
For that reason, I suggest that to you that price and path back to the root
authority generally drive my decision. InstantSSL, in my opinion, is not
too bad. The cert itself is $49/yr and the authority is only a couple
generations off the root. They have been very accomodating, in the past,
for regenerating certificates if something went wrong. It's not too tough
to talk to a real person on the phone.
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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
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