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A comment on Ask HN: What's the Catch - CheapSSLs looks like the real deal. Really?.

Re:Ask HN: What's the Catch - CheapSSLs looks like the real ... by ghshephard on Thursday November 29, 2012 @03:23AM (#4846769)
They compare all of their certs here: http://www.cheapssls.com/index.php?dispatch=compare.type

Comodo, Geotrust, and Verisign. I'm still curious as to what the catch is.

[Edit: Okay - interesting. They provide "Low Assurance" Certs for cheap, and only Verify that you have control over the Domain. This is the first time I've ever been aware that Certs do anything BUT verify you own the domain. I"m guessing less than 0.1% of people verify more than that using their browser, so, in effect, it's the only purpose of a Cert]

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Catch - CheapSSLs looks like the real ... by shiftpgdn on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:33AM (#4847178)
Just about nobody(on the customer end) does anything with SSL certificates. We had to switch from an EV SSL to a domain validated certificate for a few weeks while our new EV was validated and it had absolutely 0 affect on orders.
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