RE: [Half OOT] The Cons of Using Self-Signed Certificate
> From: Zaki Akhmad [mailto:zakiakhmad@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:06 PM
>
> Hello all
>
> First of all, forgive me, if my question is a little bit OOT. Not
> related directly to Debian.
>
> I want to know, the cons of using self-signed certificate.
> I deploy it on my webserver (https).
>
> Thank you
> --
> Zaki Akhmad
You (or your clients) will need to manually install the certificate on any
machine that they use to connect to your server. If they don't, and just
choose to ignore the warnings, then what is the point of using a
certificate? However, if manually installing certificates on client
machines isn't a problem, then there's no reason to shell out money for a
commercial certificate (which can be as little as $30 a year).
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