Free SSL Certificate Project

An anonymous reader writes "Do you have a website or run even a web server and want to secure the traffic between your visitors browser and the web site? Did you find out, that in order to make your site SSL aware, you'll need a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate? Are you also surprised to find out that such a certificate can cost you up to a few hundred dollars, valid for one year only? For what, you might ask yourself? Linuxlookup.com is running a small article on free SSL certificates."

Comments

ev1 now way

[codepunk]

I would not give those sco lovin hussies a penny of my money..

Re:sweet

[ejdmoo]

Yeah, this is cool.

Pointless

[Pan T. Hose]

I have been using self-signed SSL certificates for twelve years and I have yet to see any significant (i.e. higher than 0.01%) number of people who reject them when warned by their browsers. So I just stopped paying for them and saved a fortune. And they really costed a fortune back then, now they cost pennies in comparison but even less people bother verifying them today, so it is in fact even more pointless to pay for them (rejected percentage to price ratio is even lower). Let's face it, the whole idea of selling integers was a scam from the beginning. Do we have to pay for our SSH keys? Or GPG keys? Of course not! But HTTPS is an "e-commerce" protocol so it is somehow justified to pay for the privilege of using certain integers. This is just a legacy of dot-com era when everything "e-lectronic" was worth millions and everyone was happy to pay for it because it was a sure way to earn millions. Now it is just silly.