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

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Nathan D. Olmscheid wrote:

> 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 


Hi Nathan,

perhaps you missed the point, I am with Thawte and their rates for 
wildcards have jumped from $250 per year when we first started to $400 
plus $50 per host.  $500 per year (for two hosts) for an electronic 
transaction that requires very little effort on their part for an 
automated process is extreme...

Regards,

Barry

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> Barry Treahy, Jr. writes:
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>> 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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