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Are there any providers of free SSL certificates?
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Are there any providers of free SSL certificates?

Are there any providers of free SSL certificates?

Does it include *.domain.com certificates as well?

It is more for security rather than authentication, and avoiding invalid certificate errors.

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  • skaska Member
    edited August 2013
    • cacert.org
    • startssl.com
    Thanked by 2rchurch DragonDF
  • @ska said:

    • cacert.org
    • startssl.com

    Any gotchas or awkward procedures or just go ahead and apply?

  • If it was "for security" then you'd use your own self-signed cert.

    StartSSL.com give free certs for non-commercial use, not wildcard though (unless you fill in paperwork and send them $70 or something like that).

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited August 2013

    Does it include *.domain.com certificates as well?

    The CACert one does, but it's much less widely accepted than StartSSL.

  • Is the CACert root certificate included in the main browsers, or do Mozilla etc want something up front to include it? When I logged into the site their cert was not recognized.

  • On a side note is it possible to retrieve the clear text of a certificate, root certificate included for verification and comparison?

  • @awson said:

    StartSSL.com give free certs for non-commercial use, not wildcard though

    However, you can keep ordering free certs for as many subdomains on the same domain as you require... just a little bit of extra work but not a big deal..

    Thanked by 1rchurch
  • startssl is much more widely accepted by browsers than CACerts. And as @twain mention... because it's free... you can get StartSSL certis for as many as subdomains as you want... so in a sense you can use it as a wildcard... just a lil bit extra work needed.

    For me... it hardly takes around 5 mins to install a certi from StartSSL on a subdomain for a already verified domain in my startssl account.

    Thanked by 1rchurch
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