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[ic] Re: Recommendation for CA to issue Certs.
We are using thawte wild card certs. (sub domain certs) Work fine for us.
Assigning your own. Same security, its just that browsers will not recognize
it as a trusted cert.
Nathan
Barry Treahy, Jr. writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have used Thawte for the past five years, primarily because they were
> one of the few CA's that issued wildcards, and also because they were
> the cheapest. Since that time, Verisign swallowed them up and Thawte
> lost much of their identity we as well as their desire to price
> wildcards so that small business can easily afford them without a
> zillion hassles. During this same time, it appears that many of the
> other CA's have either gone away, merged, or stopped issuing wildcards
> too. We are not an ISP but enjoyed the flexibility of the wildcards
> because of the ability to easily replace faulty equipment or testing
> equipment without issuing a unique cert to each system.
>
> You admins that host your own systems, how do you tackle this?
>
> Any recommendations on an inexpensive CA that does still handle wildcards?
>
> I'm sick of Thawte, so if I must go for individual certs, any
> recommendations on a CA in general as long as it isn't Versign or Thawte?
>
> Lastly, what are the major drawbacks of just creating self-signed certs?
>
> Regards,
>
> Barry
>
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