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Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by duskwuff on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:38PM (#10080202)
$29 seems kind of ridiculous when "free" is right around the corner:

https://letsencrypt.org/

(Even at that, $29 isn't a particularly great price for an SSL certificate. If you shop around, you can get them from reputable CAs for half the price.)

Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by ddddddddq on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @11:34AM (#10079739)
I just want some CA to offer cheap/affordable name constrained CA certs for domains I own. If I own `foo.com`, I should be able to get a cert that can sign certs for `foo.com,*.foo.com`.

Yes, yes, DANE, but it's not ubiquitous or even all that widely accepted.

Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by michaelbuckbee on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:04PM (#10079931)
What aspects of a plain wildcard cert wouldn't work for that?
Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by duskwuff on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:37PM (#10080194)
"Affordable". Most CAs charge exorbitant prices for wildcard certificates; 10x the price of a normal cert isn't unusual.
Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by ddddddddq on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:21AM (#10086067)
By deploying the same certificate/key to every machine you really cut down on the 'private' part of the private key.
Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by FireBeyond on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @02:02PM (#10080945)
Yeah, a little misleading. $29 is an intro price for a Standard domain-validated SSL cert.

A multi-domain cert (which is cool), $149/yr for 3 domains, +$40 for each additional.

Wildcard, $150/yr.

EV Wildcard, $380/yr.

Unified Cert, $570/yr.