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From: Nicholas Sherlock <n.sherlock@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:21:02 +1200
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Subject: [users@httpd]  Re: Low priced certificate?

Peter Schober wrote:
> * Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900@yahoo.com> [2009-07-22 01:46]:
>> I am thinking of securing part of my low volume
>> web site with SSL.  I wend to some certificate
>> authorities, and I was blown away by the prices.
>> Are there that are both cheap and widely recognized?
> 
> Jfyi: you might also try free and not widely recognized,
> http://cacert.org/

Won't certificates signed by them be only useful for internally-deployed 
apps? They're not a trusted root on Windows so random browsers on the 
web will just get an "UNTRUSTED SITE! Get me out of here!" message.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock


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