[ic] Quick Question

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Yes, unless you own a wildcard domain and Thawte hicked their price up to $500 per
year!  What do the others being discussed charge for wildcards?

Barry

Mark Adams wrote:

> Last I checked, to have thawte consulting sign your digital certificate
> was only $125 for the first year and $100 for each year after that.
>
> http://www.thawte.com
>
> Of course you can sign your own certificate, but most browsers will give a
> warning message not recognizing that the certificate was signed by a
> certificate signing authority (CSA).
>
> Supposedly having a CSA sign your certificate guarantees that the CSA
> exercised due diligence to show that your organization actually exists and
> that the certificate was issued to your organization. So that when you
> accept an SSL connection from the server of an organization that claims to
> be located at 1600 pennsylvania ave, you can be assured that you are
> actually doing business with an organization at 1600 pennsylvania ave.
>
> Unless you have your certificate signed by Verisign, who is known for
> signing multiple certificates without exercising due diligence. Such as
> when they recently signed two certificates from a hacker claiming to be
> Microsoft. Oops.
>
> ---
> Mark Adams
> madams@cybernet.com
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jim Balcom wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jason Osborne wrote:
> >
> > JO>>I know this is totally off the topic, but I was sitting here trying to
> > JO>>figure it out and since Interchange uses SSL I thought someone might know
> > JO>>something about this. I noticed that I have a test certificate that came
> > JO>>installed out of the box when I installed openssl. I was wondering how to
> > JO>>get a real key, can I just make one or do I have to pay loads of cash each
> > JO>>year for one?
> >
> > For starters, read the long message that I just posted.
> >
> > You can use the test certificate, but your customers are going to get
> > continual warnings from their browser to the effect that you may be a
> > phony trying to rip them off.
> >
> > You are going to need to buy a real key and renew it each year. Thawte
> > is charging $225 per year for a cert (www.thawte.com) (Or, is it $250?)
> >
> > If you are going to do business on the internet you MUST have a cert,
> > and it must be registered to a domain that you are doing business
> > under. Otherwise, people will get complaints from their browser.
> >
> > Having a secure server and a cert is a GREAT investment. I had one for
> > a year. When it ran out, I let it lapse for a year. During that time I
> > received a couple of e-mails from people about my lack of a secure
> > server, and their refusal to buy from me. On January 3rd, I put the
> > secure server back up. Oct, Nov, and Dec sales were flat. January, the
> > first month with a cert, they did a dramatic increase and they have
> > been skyrocketing since. I made no significant changes to my methods of
> > merchandising, or advertising. As far as I am concerned, that cert has
> > paid for itself many times over.
> >
> > The internet is full of rip-off schemes, and plenty of people that are
> > only out to get your money. People are scared, especially when it comes
> > to putting their credit card on the line. They don't have too much to
> > judge you by when they place their first order. But, 2 things that they
> > DO want is a secure server, one that their browser is not going to puke
> > on, or throw up warnings about; and they want their charge cards
> > processed by that company. If you placed an order at Amazon.com and
> > your credit card statement said that you had made the purchase at
> > 'Podunk Processing', you should be concerned about what is going on.
> >
> >
> > -= Jim =-
> >
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