Hi All again, What makes it so expensive to have a certificate? I mean, wouldn't it be possible to setup a new authority that doesn't charge as much or nothing at all? Wouldn't the major browsers be willing to support an authority that is free or costs next to nothing? I pay about $200 a year for my virtual server, so if i only issue 200 certifcates and charge a dollar each i wouldn't loose money. I have a v-server on the Internet and wouldn't mind setting it up as a free authority or even one based on donations. Or is there going to be so much traffic and processing that it wouldn't be able to handle it? Cannot be that bad because it needs to compute the authentication only periodically (once a year or so for each) and each time a user hits a page it is only checked which would only be a couple of bytes traffic (per domain?). Please enlighten me why it is so expensive? Is it maybe just the hassle of setting it up? Regards, Tim Tim-Hinnerk Heuer http://www.ihostnz.com Fred Allen - "California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange." 2009/2/16 Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> > German Geek wrote: > >> OK, i hear about this self signed certificate. Whenever i signed anything >> it >> just came up with all these warnings in FF which confuses users and i >> think >> is not good at all. Can someone paste a link in here to a website with a >> self signed cert please? Would like to see if there are any warnings etc. >> Thanks. >> > > There still are all the warnings. > > There are some cheap (and free) CA's that FireFox recognizes so it still is > possible to use SSL and not have the firefox 3 warning hell, but things like > linksys routers are still problematic. > > https://www.scientificlinux.org/ > > Demonstrates the problem in FireFox 3. > They use a self-signed cert. >
