[olug] OT?: SSL certs: freessl.com is awesome!

David Walker olug at grax.com
Sat Feb 19 16:58:58 UTC 2005


I have a couple of godaddy certs that I paid $30 for.  They are chained certs 
and they are trusted in IE, firefox, konqueror etc

On Saturday 19 February 2005 08:19 am, Jay Hannah wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Christopher Cashell wrote:
> > However, for Open Source developers, it looks like there's another
> > choice, too.  GoDaddy has started offering *free* SSL Certificates to
> > Open Source Projects.
> >
> > Here's the press release:
> >
> > http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/
> > story/02-18-2005/0003030306&EDATE=
> >
> > And here's the actual page for signing up:
> >
> > https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp
> >
> > I've been hosting most of my domain names with GoDaddy for a couple of
> > years now, and I'm really impressed that they're doing this.  I like it
> > when I'm supporting companies that support Free Software.
>
> Do you pay $ for their hosting of domain names?
>
> I use a ton of open source for free, but I don't consider that
> "supporting" it unless I throw money or time at them. I do that too,
> but am always trying to figure out good ways to "give back"...
>
> Are the GoDaddy certs "chained certs"? Are they trusted by default by
> IE and other browsers?
>
> j
>
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