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yancho
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 Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: Free SSL Certificate |
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I was browsing through some sites, and realised some are starting to use this Free SSL Certificate company. This certificate is being issued by : StartCom Free SSL Certification Authority
Quoting from their site
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Furthermore, every certificate from StartCom is insured up to US$ 10,000 if your customers were to suffer financial loss as a direct result of relying on a certificate that was issued through our negligence!
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This insurance can be quite a decent one if you intend to have a small project, where your clients won't invest alot of money on the site, and also won't have transactions going on.
At the moment I have no time to play with this tool, so please if someone manages to get somthing rolling we would be happy to hear the review.
The statistics help the claim, in 2 year 3 months operating, they got almost 44,000 certificates with just a mere 3000 being revoked.
Here you can find which browsers support this CA, http://cert.startcom.org/?app=140 . There is mentioned that Opera does not support this CA. I can confirm that with Opera 9.25 it is supported. So was with 9.20. Off course (normal Microsoft custom) this certificate is NOT compatible with Internet Explorer, so as said before you have to think twice before putting it on a live system.
Please review 
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varactor
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MaTToo7
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:51 am Post subject: |
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Kinda cool as a type of security but alas Firefox does not support it I'm afraid.  |
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varactor
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| MaTToo7 wrote: | | Kinda cool as a type of security but alas Firefox does not support it I'm afraid. |
yes it does. If it's not signed then Firefox 3 will block it until you "Add Exeption" etc, which happens also with certificates signed by major companies as well when they are expired. |
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MaTToo7
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Oh thanks for info.  |
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