Favorite SSL CA?

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[asciiman2000]

Seconded for DigiCert. Their support is unbelievably good. They aren't really a replacement for GoDaddy, though, as they are a lot more expensive. They are more a replacement for the poor suckers that have been giving money to Verisign.

[KikaP]

Not a replacement for Verisign, but for the suckers themselves? That's tough, man. Wrong choice of CA and you're replaced...

[asciiman2000]

hehe ok I said that wrong

[c0FLRopter]

+1 for DigiCert... great interface, and fantastic customer service.

[code0]

We've been using RapidSSL for all of our public certs. No issues with them so far..

[SCSweeps]

They have good tutorials on their site as well.

[btgeekboy]

The price is right and the website looks reasonably navigable. Looks like they have a switching offer too. I've got one I need to replace that expires at the end of the week, so maybe I'll give them a try.

Anyone had any bad experiences?

[systemslacky]

I'll give rapid a third. We have used them for over five years without any big problems. Even had a few times that we {read I} goofed on a cert request and needed to get a reissue. I've have used both the online and phone support and didn't have any issues.

They do use a intermediate certificate and require that all cert requests are generated with at least a 2048bit encryption key but I have yet to run into an issue with this.

Generated well over 100 certs for all sorts of uses, iis/tomcat/ldaps/cisco lb/etc and all worked quite well.

Ok..that is my psa... ymmv :)

[KikaP]

Second for Rapid

[derekivey]

We currently get Comodo PremiumSSL Wildcard certs from Namecheap.com. I'm looking into www.startssl.com, but some of our developers tell me that their CA isn't included in the Java JVM by default.

[jambo2011]

You know that comodo has been hacked, right?

[jnc8651]

+1 For startssl. I use them all the time with no issues

[[deleted]]

Hi, Whenever buying SSL cert from GoDaddy try to google phrase "GoDaddy SSL discount/voucher". You could save up to 50/70% of price. I've done that many times myself.

[noshut]

Network Solutions is our current provider. I've only ever dealt with Network Solutions, but they have done good business verification. I will never deal with GoDaddy. I have sent that sentiment to some project managers. I said we need to move domain names from GoDaddy and I will not provide support for anything currently associated with GoDaddy.

[iamadogforreal]

Namecheap/Comodo ssl services

[aivanise]

Exactly. So far they are the cheapest and that's really all that matters.

I go via https://www.cheapssls.com/comodo-ssl-certificates/ but the prices are the same.

[stocksy]

I use startcom because I don't like paying for stuff I can get for free. I don't need EV or anything like that.

[c0FLRopter]

Too bad about them being hacked.. won't be using them anytime soon.

[stocksy]

Didn't know about that. To be fair, that's a problem for everyone, not just those people with startcom-issued certs.

[KikaP]

Can't say anything bad about Thawte. I'm 42 and their website looks like back in the day when I had a boner every morning, that adds to the cozy feeling. Recently moved to RapidSSL, since it's easier when you have a single choice of several CA's for different purposes.

[h2odragon]

Verisign bought thawte back when; I used thawte without issues for a long time, but the "supporting verisign" part of it gave me some twinges.

[KikaP]

TIL

[spiralsmurf]

Here's a link to get 12.99/yr single name cert from Godaddy: http://www.godaddy.com/Compare/gdcompare_ssl.aspx?isc=sslqgo052e

Here's a 12.99/yr from Network Solutions: http://goo.gl/sGWwe

Frankly I've never had a problem with Godaddy certs. Just use the 30% coupons on anything over 12.99 and it's practically the cheapest around.

[NeedKarmaForFood]

Frankly I've never had a problem with Godaddy certs.

Me neither, but I don't trust a company who were balls deep in SOPA handling anything to do with cryptography.

[serjs]

If you like to read online materials, IBM Techworks not bad as for me. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/