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Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

#71

My startup is actually centered around this. If anyone wants to purchase a certificate through me, I'll happily give you the lowest rates I can. ($25 EV or $40 wildcard) Our homepage is https://certly.io , shoot me an email at ian@certly.io

I can be interested. What is cost of SSL certoficate ?

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

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Check out my startup, SSLMate: https://sslmate.com . What sets SSLMate apart is that we're working on making SSL certificate management extremely easy on Linux servers. You buy certs from the command line in a single step that takes a minute or less and automates important details like bundling the chain certificate. You can set up a cron job for automatic renewals. Even well-run sites have been known to forget or bo…

I didn't found pricing information about your certs. I even tried to register to find these prices, but you asked me for my credit card. Sorry.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

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post #47

Check out my startup, SSLMate: https://sslmate.com . What sets SSLMate apart is that we're working on making SSL certificate management extremely easy on Linux servers. You buy certs from the command line in a single step that takes a minute or less and automates important details like bundling the chain certificate. You can set up a cron job for automatic renewals. Even well-run sites have been known to forget or bo…

I didn't found pricing information about your certs. I even tried to register to find these prices, but you asked me for my credit card. Sorry.

It's on the home page:

Standard: $15.95/year

Wildcard: $149.95/year

But thanks for the feedback; I'll make this more prominent.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

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post #71

My startup is actually centered around this. If anyone wants to purchase a certificate through me, I'll happily give you the lowest rates I can. ($25 EV or $40 wildcard) Our homepage is https://certly.io , shoot me an email at ian@certly.io

I can be interested. What is cost of SSL certoficate ?

Shoot me an email with more info.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

#78

Don't EV certs create a net increase in security risk (if any web users understood what they were supposed to mean)? I'm not expert in these issues, but I've always doubted their security value: EV certs are supposed to communicate certainty[1] to typical web users about identity, confidentiality, and integrity. But, if I understand correctly, obtaining EV certs in someone else's name (or something close enough to fo…

Could you explain more about obtaining it under someone else's name? There are many checks in place to prevent this.

> Could you explain more about obtaining it under someone else's name? There are many checks in place to prevent this.

Here's what I know, which is not conclusive but possibly persuasive, and as I say below, I've never seen someone call the checks effective: 1) In my experience obtaining regular certs, the identity verification looked ineffective (though I wasn't trying to fool anyone). 2) Regarding both EV and regular certs, I've read several times about ineffectiveness of the verification, and I've never seen someone say otherwise. 3) Finally, effective verification is hard and manually intensive; it's hard to believe it's economical or practical for the large volume of certs issued.

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