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[Craig Duncan <craigduncan AT entuend.com>]

Steven Champeon wrote:

> 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?
>
>  
In the past, when working on large scale sites, I purchased from 
VeriSign. At the moment, I am reviewing RapidSSL for a client of mine 
and so far have found no issues with their test certificate (works on 
all major browsers) and their prices also seem pretty competitive. Much 
of what/who you choose to buy from depends on the perception of your end 
users.

Craig