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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] SSL Consulting?
  • Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:10:47 -0400

on Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:59:20PM -0400, Craig Duncan wrote:
> Depends on what you are looking to do. If you find that you have a lot
> of transactions, you will want to consider adding a SSL accelerator card
> to offload from the processor - but you may not have that option on a
> hosted box. If you want to have SSL support for multiple domains, you
> should consider a wildcard certificate, and since you want to have a
> trust relationship with your customers, you should buy from one of the
> big name vendors, rather than becoming your own certificate authority.

Craig, who do you recommend for a cert authority? I've used Thawte for
many years, since back when they were one of the only alternatives to
Verisign/NSI, but now that they're owned by Verisign, I've considered
using RapidSSL or one of the other newly minted competitors. Comments?

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