[M3devel] Trusted certificates for Elego's web services

[Olaf Wagner]

I'll put this topic on the agenda of our next infrastructure
meeting at Elego. It will be some time, since our 'prime administrator'
is on a long vacation in the US.

I've never really understood why I should feel more secure if
a large enterprise whose procedures I don't know and can neither
examine nor validate certifies that I bought just that certificate
from them. Nor do I see it really necessary for those who don't
engage in online shopping or trading. I do see that it's an
interesting business though (financial perspective).

However, it seems to become more and more expected that one has
certificates from a trusted issuer, so it will affect all Elego
customers, too.

We'll have to get certificates for all our web servers, which will
then include the CM3 one. I'll let you know if we can take over the
costs :-)

Let's ignore this issue for while...

Olaf

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

>> Surely Microsoft cannot assume that the whole Internet is
>> officially certified? We'd need to raise some funds if we wanted
>> to do that for cm3...
>>
>> Olaf
>
> How much?
>
>
> It looks like..verisign..cheapest option..
>  $600/year
>  $1100/2 years (save $100)
>  $1600/3 years (save $200)
>
> good enough?
>
> Can six people each put up $100, check payable to Olaf,
> he volunteers his time (or make it seven people, or $110 each), and we'll
> worry about it again in a year?
> I can.
>
> Or ignore it?
>
> Double the price for 128bit instead of 40bit.
>
> I don't understand the "extended validation, gren address bar".
>
> Shop around maybe it is availabe cheaper?
>
> Or just ignore it?
>
> Maybe they offer a discount for open source projects?
>
> I'll poke around a bit more..
>
>
> GoDaddy seems to offer much better.
> Free for a year for open source projects, 256 bit, a $30 value.
> A $30 value, hm.
>
>
> So..if you don't want the bureacracy of being an official open   
> source project..
> They really do offer stuff starting at $30/year.
> Their most expensive option seems to be $240/year.
> Multi-year discounts range from 10% to 25%.
>
>
> So..just $30/year?
> Or free due to being open source?
>
> This sounds more viable and maybe worthwhile. Or just ignore it?
>
>
>  - Jay
>



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