Somebody just recommended to me to get an SSL certificate from qualityssl.com. Does anybody have any experience with their certificates? $25 a year sounds too good to be true.

Originally posted by alosito
Somebody just recommended to me to get an SSL certificate from qualityssl.com. Does anybody have any experience with their certificates? $25 a year sounds too good to be true.

reseller of comodo.net afaik.

Is it good or bad? I see that comodo.net offers them for $49 which is almost twice as much what qualityssl.com offers. How come? Are their certificates as good as the the ones from Verisign or GeoTrust?

It depends what you classify as "good". Verisign has the highest browser recognition, but the others advertise to be 98% compatible.

Verisign is also pickier than others in verifying a company's identity before giving them a cert. If you are doing lots of e-commerce transactions, visitors may expect to see the familar Verisign seal.

http://www.freessl.com/
Check if they still give free SSL.

Also check out freessl's chained certs. They are $15/year and seem to work quite well. I purchased one last week, and have been happy with it. I made the purchase and had my cert working 15 mins later. (There is no authenticity verification)

Chained technology? Doesn't it cause problems when used with certain browsers?

sloop, so certificates from qualityssl.com don't work as smooth as the ones from Verisign or Geotrust? I don't really want to lose 2% of my customers because of a cheaper certificate.

I'm using certs from Instant SSL (Comodo) and have been absolutely thrilled. I've completely dropped Thawte certs, and I used to be a big supporter of Thawte.

So compatibility of Comodo's certificates with different browsers is not an issue? I called their tech support, and they claim to be even more competable than GeoTrust's certificates.

Originally posted by alosito
So compatibility of Comodo's certificates with different browsers is not an issue? I called their tech support, and they claim to be even more competable than GeoTrust's certificates.

well, I disagree with that... but, hey, I have no hard #s to back that up....

We resell Comodo Certs under our brand and haven't had any issues that I am aware of with browser compatability. I should say, no customers have brought any to our attention. have we just been lucky? I don't know, I will say we had issues with freessl, but usually only with older browsers, and even that was a while ago... haven't seen many issues recently with certs from any of the companies now.

I've seen compatability issues with GeoTrust & ChainSSL with some versions of IE 5.0. This may or may not be the certificates fault. I have an inkling some versions of IE 5.0 simply lack the crytography features necessary to handle modern 128-bit encryption.

Actually, you can generate your own certs, but the customers would have to hit "accept" to accept the cert.z

That's the difference.

Originally posted by alosito
sloop, so certificates from qualityssl.com don't work as smooth as the ones from Verisign or Geotrust? I don't really want to lose 2% of my customers because of a cheaper certificate.

Actually, Comodo/********** announced they have a new chained root and are now more compatible than Geotrust. You might want to ask them for the details that I'm not sure about.

What browsers support FreeSSL?

Originally posted by SpiritAu
What browsers support FreeSSL?

Not too sure, they mentioned 90% compatiability. But probably IE and Netscape 4 and above

I got one and it works with my IE 6.02 but then again,
I am the only one using it. It probably is good enough
for internal usage.

For public usage, I have a Geotrust SSL instead.

I think I know why FreeSSL recommended Geotrust.
I just checked my Amex bill today and saw that I
was billed by Geotrust ;) Cool. Same company
different cert.