Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Grant Ridder
Yes the Verisign auth stuff is done by Symantic as of 2010. -Grant On Thursday, December 27, 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Blake Pfankuch > > > wrote: > > Our stuff is currently through Verisign because of the "reliability of > the name" and the nature of th

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > Our stuff is currently through Verisign because of the "reliability of the > name" and the nature of the industry. verisign sold this business (like 2+ years ago?), maybe it's time to find someone else with a reliable name? (who hasn't sol

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 12/27/12, Blake Pfankuch wrote: It does make no sense, and I would say it is an unusual restriction, but a CA can put any certificate usage restriction they want in their policy, and technically, they have likely included a right to audit and issue out a revokation/CRL for any certificates

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Ken A
I've found rapidssl wildcards are generally the cheapest (~$120), and are not limited to a number of servers. In practice, neither are the other brands. Ken On 12/27/2012 1:47 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something > a vendor is t

RE: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Blake Pfankuch
ability as well. Thawte and GeoTrust have the same "per server" model, and looking to get away from that. Thanks! Blake -Original Message- From: Blake Pfankuch [mailto:bl...@pfankuch.me] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:48 PM To: NANOG (nanog@nanog.org) Subject:

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed > per physical device it is installed on. If you stay at a $200 hotel, you pay an extra $10 for Internet access. If you stay at a $40 motel, Internet is included. Same differe

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Larry LaBas
I did and it was vendor dependent which is why I switched a year and a half ago. TTFN, Larry http://www.linkedin.com/in/llabas On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:47, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something >

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Andrew Latham
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something > a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in this > area... > > I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread John Adams
Many vendors do this and I highly recommend someone like Digicert that won't play the per-machine licensing game with you. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something > a vendor is tell

Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
Yes, some SSL providers (mostly the overpriced ones) like to "license" their certs on a per-server basis. If you read the contract language, this is how it's written. However, this is strictly a contractual issue, not a technical one. It's just a way to squeeze more money out of people who

SSL Certificates and ... Providers

2012-12-27 Thread Blake Pfankuch
Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in this area... I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a quantity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover about 60 FQDN's