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Cheap SSL Certificates for Small Websites?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-can't-we-be-our-own-certificate-authority dept.

zaqattack911 asks: "In the workplace today it is becoming more and more common for everyday applications to be accessible over the web. Just about all the booking and tracking systems at my job are handled via web-apps these days. Along with this trend, is the increased need for secure transactions over the web. Just about all of the apps on my webserver are going to be SSL only. Some of them are for internal use only, some for the outside internet to use. Is there a cheap alternative to getting your certificates signed? Self signing my certificates works of course, but just about all browsers make a big fuss about it. Verisign asks for about 400$ initially, and 300$ to renew a certificate every year. This seems like a scam to me, and I'd love to know if anyone knows of alternatives out there? Is there a way to get around the certificate signing business? I looked at a company called RSA Security which allows a company to 'self sign' and use their accepted signature. The website doesn't mention the price, and I'm sure it's not very affordable. What else is there?"

7 of 436 comments (clear)

  1. New improved FP version 5.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get your own!!!

  2. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post

  3. BUSH = RECESSION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    While war looms, or murder, if you will, the economy, the dow, AT AN 8 YEAR LOW.

    UNEMPLOYMENT is at a 10 YEAR HIGH.

    It was at a thirty year low just 5 years ago.

  4. Re:BUSH = RECESSION -- So true! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The reason that war looms is that Bush is willing to carpet bomb an entire country to keep Americans from focusing on the sad state of the economy.

    Bush is an idiot and were it not for the crooked Banana Republicans down in Florida, we would not have to put up with his sorry ass.

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    Sincerely,
    Your Mom

  6. Re:Free root cert project by Gordonjcp · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You shouldn't piss off the nurses in the Genito-Urinary Medicine clinic then, should you? I warned you, they can really do painful things to you in the name of "treatment"...

  7. Re:Might want to check....... by zadkat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You guys are so naughty and zany!