A listener question about free certs was briefly addressed in http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-228.htm last week's episode of the http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm Security Now! podcasts, featuring Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte.
On the whole, Steve was very favorable as regards the same issuer referred to as http://cert.startcom.org/ StartCom . David Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > > Dear Michael, > > Thanks for the info. This was on my plate as a tast to regenerate our > certs. I've tried free certs in the past and have never had them > recognized by mainstream clients. I conceded to give your suggestion a > try and it seems to have worked well. Thank you! Let me know if you > have any troubles. > > Troy > > > > Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote: >> I noticed, while attempting to access >> https://crosswire.org/svn/gobible/, that crosswire.org's self-signed >> security certificate is expired. I recommend replacing that expired, >> self-signed certificate with a free class 1 certificate from >> http://www.startssl.com/, since the root certificate is already included >> in many browsers, and since it is good security practice to not get >> people too used to confirming security exceptions in their browsers. >> >> Happy New Year! (It is over 8 hours into 2010 in my time zone.) >> >> Michael >> http://kahunapule.org > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Site-certificate-suggestion-http-www-startssl-com-class-1-tp991639p991779.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
