I just found this company - freessl.com - offering a free SSL certificate (one year). I just wondered if it is worth it, not knowing so much about SSL? - I would like to offer shared SSL to my clients. Could I share this free certificate with all the clients on my server, or would I need a specific certificate/version to do that?

Thanks
John

I just bought one the other day. It doesn't appear to be trusted by anyone. It was a total waste of $15.

What do you mean by 'not trusted by anyone' - what would clients visitors experience if that's the case?

John

It gets a warning message that the certificate is not from a trusted source. At least it does with IE6.

Thanks for explaining - did you get another trusted certificate and can you recommend it?

John

I've had good experiences with the Geotrust Quickssl that Rackshack sells for $50.

I won't give any money to Verisign or any of their companies, so I haven't tried those.

I was thinking of giving Commodo a shot, but have yet to do so.

Ok, thanks for helping :D

John

Originally posted by lightnin
I just bought one the other day. It doesn't appear to be trusted by anyone. It was a total waste of $15.
You can't have installed it correctly. The Chained SSL certs are trusted by 98% (I think) of browsers in use, and represent excellent value for money imo. You need to follow their documentation closely, as you must specify the intermediate cert or the whole thing will fail - this is probably why you are having trouble. Checkout secure.adtekh.com (https://secure.adtekh.com) - that's using a FreeSSL ChainedSSL certificate, and I haven't found a browser that doesn't trust it yet (I've tried IE 5/6, Mozilla, Netscape, though I've yet to try any versions of Opera).

You can't have installed it correctly. The Chained SSL certs are trusted by 98% (I think) of browsers in use, and represent excellent value for money imo. You need to follow their documentation closely, as you must specify the intermediate cert or the whole thing will fail - this is probably why you are having trouble. Checkout secure.adtekh.com - that's using a FreeSSL ChainedSSL certificate, and I haven't found a browser that doesn't trust it yet (I've tried IE 5/6, Mozilla, Netscape, though I've yet to try any versions of Opera).

Wow I'm impressed, my browser is ie 5.0 and it balks at everything, but not even a hiccough with yours.

Thats a free cert?
Is it from Free ssl?

Originally posted by JamesS

You can't have installed it correctly. The Chained SSL certs are trusted by 98% (I think) of browsers in use, and represent excellent value for money imo. You need to follow their documentation closely, as you must specify the intermediate cert or the whole thing will fail - this is probably why you are having trouble. Checkout secure.adtekh.com (https://secure.adtekh.com) - that's using a FreeSSL ChainedSSL certificate, and I haven't found a browser that doesn't trust it yet (I've tried IE 5/6, Mozilla, Netscape, though I've yet to try any versions of Opera).


Agreed. I bought a chainedssl cert a week ago and it has been great! No compatibility problems and you can't beat it for $15. :D

Yep. Tried out their $15 chained cert myself. No problems.

How long did it take for you to receive your ChainedSSL information? I got the confirmation quickly but did not receive my SSL certificate information yet.

I don't know when this site was last updated and whether it's still accurate but I found this the other day: http://www.********.com/faq/compatibility.html

EDIT: Ah well, the URL is banned - can't say I didn't try :)