SSL Certification Authority

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sleepylee

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Anyone have any recommendations for an SSL certification authority. Price isn't really material, but value for money is. Why should I spend ~$550 per year with Verisign when I can get one from Comodo for ~$150. Or, ahem, Godaddy for $15 (too good to be true?).

Being verified on obscure browers isn't a problem - all users will be using either IE or FF.

Is there anything I should consider before buying other than price/security/browers verification?

Thanks.
 


I don't think there are really justifiable technical advantages to more expensive certificates. Anything 128 bits is secure enough.

However, some vendors allow you to display a "secured by" seal on your site which can increase conversions quite a bit. So it may be worth it to pay more money if a vendor has a nicer seal.
 
Thanks for the feedback - I'd forgotten about this.

Conversions aren't a consideration. The actual transaction will take place offline, it's just the actual data transfer that concerns me.

Thanks.

Anyone else?
 
Hi,

You can try RapidSSL, they are pretty cheap, and we use them for our hosting customers. Never had any issues with them - but its probably the least complicated bit of hosting.

Cheers
 
Just out of interest, how would its intended use affect my decision regarding the certificate I buy?
 
If you are just processing some misc transactions and it's offline the standard rapidssl will work (You can get these lots of places for next to nothing, namecheap has them at low prices) which will work just fine in the majority of browsers.

The verisign certificate is at that price not only because of the encryption but primarily because of the marketing logo it brings.
 
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