SSL cert

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>:

>> Just accept the certificate and move on with life.  Either that
>> or find some trusted CA (meaning already in Firefox, IE, and Safari)
>> that will provide free SSL Certs.
>
> I just looked around and see that GoDaddy has a "special" price of
> $14.99 for an SSL certificate...
>
> http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/compare/gdcompare_ssl.asp
>
> I haven't done business with them so I imagine the renewal might be
> more expensive.
>
> Would a trusted certificate be useful for any other purposes, or is it
> needed only for the list server?

Nope, no other purpose than to get that warning to go away when
people follow the HTTPS links to the server.  Personally I see nothing
wrong with self-signed certificates provided you save them forever.
It's no worse than the security that SSH gives you.

It's certainly not worth it to me to pay $15 just to help than one
poor soul a year who gets confused by his browser and doesn't know
to just accept it.  The fact that Firefox is making it harder to
accept self-signed certs doesn't help. :(

-derek

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