Re: [Half OOT] The Cons of Using Self-Signed Certificate
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Kevin Ross <Kevin@familyross.net> wrote:
>> 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).
Startcom will give you free certificates that are trusted by Firefox,
Safari, Opera and a few other browsers. I'm not sure if IE trusts them
or not. https://www.startssl.com/?app=1
--Ben
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