On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Kevin Ross <ke...@familyross.net> wrote: >> From: Zaki Akhmad [mailto:zakiakh...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:06 PM >> >> Hello all >> >> First of all, forgive me, if my question is a little bit OOT. Not >> related directly to Debian. >> >> I want to know, the cons of using self-signed certificate. >> I deploy it on my webserver (https). >> >> Thank you >> -- >> Zaki Akhmad > > You (or your clients) will need to manually install the certificate on any > machine that they use to connect to your server. If they don't, and just > choose to ignore the warnings, then what is the point of using a > certificate? However, if manually installing certificates on client > machines isn't a problem, then there's no reason to shell out money for a > commercial certificate (which can be as little as $30 a year).
Startcom will give you free certificates that are trusted by Firefox, Safari, Opera and a few other browsers. I'm not sure if IE trusts them or not. https://www.startssl.com/?app=1 --Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
