Looking at GeoTrust and Chained SSL, and I am not sure what the differnce is between them.

Thanks for the help

Jezzomaster

Depends which certificate you get with the companies. Geotrust is a more well known company and a large business would most likely choose Geotrust instead of Chained SSL.

Like the name, Chained SSL sells chained certificates, you can search their site to find out what that means exactly.

If your just looking to secure your site for orders or such, chained ssl is fine, if you run a large site that processes many orders I would go with geotrust.

Also chained is trusted on less browsers than geo.

They both should provide basically the same security, but what I found after purchasing and installing both is that the cheaper chained ssl still pulled up a notice box in IE as a non-trusted ssl cert. This went away after installing the geo cert so I'd recommend using the geo cert for biz sites where you could use chained for personal or maybe small biz where their customers don't mind the box popping up on them. This might scare away some customers who don't know the process.

Any thoughts about Altaire/SecureSSL (Comodo) versus Geotrust?

I think Comodo just costs more...I don't remember off hand though. ;)

Any thoughts about Altaire/SecureSSL (Comodo) versus Geotrust?
My thoughts are that I bought 1 too many certs for 1 domain already so I'll let someone else test this one out to see if IE accepts it as a trusted cert.

Originally posted by Alex042
They both should provide basically the same security, but what I found after purchasing and installing both is that the cheaper chained ssl still pulled up a notice box in IE as a non-trusted ssl cert. This went away after installing the geo cert so I'd recommend using the geo cert for biz sites where you could use chained for personal or maybe small biz where their customers don't mind the box popping up on them. This might scare away some customers who don't know the process.

You received that error because you didn't installed the CA Bundle ;)

~Francisco

Yes, if you install it right (have to do it manually, not through a control panel), you won't get that error.

Comodo certs work fine under IE if it's installed correctly. They're pretty good.
Pricing is cheap as well - $49 for the InstantSSL.

i was told i cant use pop3s with out a cert that i must pay for.
can this be done with self generated cert ? is a payed for cert a must ? i want it to just access my pop3 securily and for few of my users.

that would presumably be because you need a cert on mail.domain.com that only applies if thats how its been set up. mostly the mail. is just an 'a' record.

You received that error because you didn't installed the CA Bundle
I did? Hm, I must've got it installed with the geocert then because it seemed to work ok.

No... you don't need to install the CA bundle with GeoTrust certs as they're not chained. ChainedSSL actually has higher browser support if you set it up with the trust root certificate as you're supposed to, as do Comodo's.

FreeSSL is also a subsidiary of GeoTrust, and ChainedSSL was simply a ploy by GeoTrust to try make out their QuickSSL certs as being superiour to Comodo's.

A related thread that might be of interest is http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132700.

.: K :.