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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

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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