Re: Certificate vendors

[Christopher R Mielke <chris.mielke () DRAKE EDU>]

We have been using Comodo certificates for at least 5 years as well. No significant issues to date, and if you create a 
prepaid PKI account, you can get pretty good discounts on their already reduced prices.

Thanks,

Chris Mielke
Network Engineer 2


On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Alexander Kurt Keller <alkeller () SFSU EDU> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
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> It isn’t too good to be true, our unit has used InstantSSL/Comodo for the past 5 years without significant issues.  
> For SSL you will need to install an intermediary certificate on the server (i suspect Thawte is the same), but this 
> is easy and well documented.
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> It is also worth mentioning the InCommon offering (which leverages Comodo):
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> http://www.incommonfederation.org/cert/
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> Unlimited certs on a sliding fee scale:
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> https://www.incommon.org/cert/cert_fee.html
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> But this requires InCommon membership which includes a registration and annual fee.
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> These folks offer free SSL certs for educational institutes, but i have never used them and therefore can’t vouch for 
> the service:
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> http://certs.ipsca.com/Products/SSLServer.asp
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> best,
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> alex
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> Alex Keller
> Systems Administrator
> Academic Technology, San Francisco State University
> Office: Burk Hall 153 Phone: (415)338-6117 Email: alkeller () sfsu edu
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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Rob 
> Tanner
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:44 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Certificate vendors
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> We are currently using Thawte for all our certificates and Thawte is pretty pricey.  Comodo’s pricing, by comparison, 
> seems almost to good to be true.  Is anybody using Comodo for their SSL certificates and have you anything 
> particularly positive to say or, and more to the point, any warnings or red flags?
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> Thanks,
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> Rob Tanner
> UNIX Services Manager
> Linfield College, McMinnville Oregon