SSL Certificate

[Mark Doliner]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> Mark Doliner wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com> wrote:
>>> Mark Doliner wrote:
>>>> How do people feel about actually buying a certificate?  Is it worth
>>>> it?  If we get a certificate for only developer.pidgin.im it's about
>>>> $27 a year.
>>> Where did you find a cert for $27/year?!
>>
>> http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?ci=8979 when buying for a
>> single domain for 2 or more years.
>
> I've had very good success with StartCom -- they are the root CA for the
> XMPP Intermediate CA but also issue fairly inexpensive HTTP certs (in
> fact you can use your XMPP ICA cert for your webserver too and we hand
> those out for free, but I don't know if that would meet your needs).
>
> More here:
>
> http://xmpp.org/ca/
>
> http://startssl.com/

It seems like Internet Explorer might not recognize StartCom as a
trusted certificate authority, which makes their certificates less
useful for http://developer.pidgin.im/.  But you bring up a good
point: it totally makes sense for us to get a free certificate from
them for pidgin.im for XMPP.

-Mark