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

[Eric Paul]

At 04:47 PM 2/20/2002, you wrote:
>Barry,
>That is fairly inexpensive to me. If your clients want SSL, you charge 
>them for it? Its as easy as that?
>Not everything can be free. You can easily charge clients $100 a year for 
>the cert?? or not? We have some smaller ma and pa shops that we host and 
>they are even happy to pay that  price? And our larger clients, they could 
>care less.
>Nathan

Nathan,

I think you missed the point again.  He was not talking about reselling the 
cert (which AFAIK is illegal under the terms of the Verisign license) he's 
talking about using a wildcard cert on multiple servers WHICH HE OWNS.  And 
I agree, $500 is outrageous for that.  I had looked at getting a wildcard 
cert back when they were only a little bit more than 2 regular certs ($250 
instead of $200) but have since scaled everything back onto one server for 
my internal stuff...  Just too expensive...  Although it would be much more 
convenient to SSL-authenticate my mail on the mail server instead of having 
to gate it around :P

Eric