[ic] Recommendation for CA to issue Certs.

Wed Feb 20 16:50:00 2002

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:04:08PM -0700, Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> 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?

It took Thawte a couple of years to get "verisigned".  No doubt you will
soon be able to get "expedited service" for extra fees while the normal
service continues to degrade.

We're cutting over to Entrust via OpenSRS, specifically because 
OpenSRS/Tucows has partnered with them and we've had only excellent 
history with OpenSRS.

> 
> Lastly, what are the major drawbacks of just creating self-signed certs?

No chain of trust.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Barry
> 
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