[ic] Re: Recommendation for CA to issue Certs.

[Nathan D. Olmscheid]

We are using thawte wild card certs. (sub domain certs) Work fine for us. 

Assigning your own. Same security, its just that browsers will not recognize 
it as a trusted cert. 

Nathan 

Barry Treahy, Jr. writes: 

> Hi folks, 
> 
> I have used Thawte for the past five years, primarily because they were
> one of the few CA's that issued wildcards, and also because they were
> the cheapest.  Since that time, Verisign swallowed them up and Thawte
> lost much of their identity we as well as their desire to price
> wildcards so that small business can easily afford them without a
> zillion hassles.  During this same time, it appears that many of the
> other CA's have either gone away, merged, or stopped issuing wildcards
> too.  We are not an ISP but enjoyed the flexibility of the wildcards
> because of the ability to easily replace faulty equipment or testing
> equipment without issuing a unique cert to each system. 
> 
> You admins that host your own systems, how do you tackle this? 
> 
> Any recommendations on an inexpensive CA that does still handle wildcards? 
> 
> I'm sick of Thawte, so if I must go for individual certs, any
> recommendations on a CA in general as long as it isn't Versign or Thawte? 
> 
> Lastly, what are the major drawbacks of just creating self-signed certs? 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Barry 
> 
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