Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates

Re:Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates by yawniek on Thursday August 14, 2014 @05:33AM (#8176678)

slightly off topic: i wonder why google (or mozilla) do not add something like a "less secure" root CA service where everybody can get a ssl cert for free (after showing control over the domain).

this would degrade the annoying message to a simple warning and probably make lots of hobbyist websites use only ssl.

(if you have to choose between annoy your user or just using plain http i guess many choose the later.)

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Re:Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates by bwblabs on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:12AM (#8176766)

Ever heard of StartSSL Free?

https://www.startssl.com/?app=39

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Re:Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates by simoncarter on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:43AM (#8176833)

StartSSL is great. I'm able to role and go live with SSL certs, now i've written down the process, in less than half an hour, with checking and all other stuff involved.

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Re:Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates by nucleardog on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:40AM (#8181121)

As much as I like the idea of free SSL certificates... For anything beyond a personal site, even an hour is crazy.

I can have a basic SSL certificate in 15 minutes at the outside for like $8. My time at work is worth a lot more than $8/hr.

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Re:Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates by simoncarter on Monday August 18, 2014 @02:49AM (#8191641)

I'm intrigued to know how the process for a 8$ cert is different to that of a basic free StartSSL cert. The last paid for certificate I got was a year ago, and getting a StartSSL certificate is just as streamlined a process as the paid one. The only thing I can think of is if you are talking about certificates with wild-card matching, which will save time on the individual certificates you have to get when free. But for $8, is it possible to get a wild-card matching one?

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