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We'd all rather have EV. That's not the question. The problem is price. SSL certificates are simply too expensive. Reduce the price and you will see an increase
by rocky1138 11y ago
We'd all rather have EV. That's not the question. The problem is price. SSL certificates are simply too expensive. Reduce the price and you will see an increase in adoption.
- creshal 11y agoYep. Shit, if we were a customer of certsimple, we wouldn't have SSL at all for 99% of our sites because we couldn't afford it.
- rocky1138 11y agoI don't want to focus on and skewer certsimple; they're just one provider out of (likely) hundreds. I've never seen a cheap EV certificate from any of them.
- creshal 11y agoOh, sure. But others at least offer DV certificates which are remotely affordable… to companies.
- Spooky23 11y agoWhy not? They spam this place every week or so.
- BillinghamJ 11y agoStartSSL's EV certs are pretty darn reasonable.
- mikemaccana 11y ago(replying from old openid account due to rate limit) I have no idea about StartSSL, but some cheaper EV providers Comodo immediately ask you to use a lawyer or CPA to write professional opinion letters. This allows the CA to do less work according to the EV guidelines, but massively slows down the validation process and may incur additional fees unless you have an in-house legal team or CPA.
- creshal 11y agoOTOH, their support is pretty much shit. Still waiting for a cert request they flagged "for check within 2-3 hours" two weeks ago…
- slantyyz 11y agoI know this is a little off-topic, but who is a good/trustworthy certificate provider with reasonable prices for certificates that are supported by Android and iOS browsers?
- Someone1234 11y agoNamecheap is a reseller but they resell Comodo certs cheaper than Comodo does themselves.
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- nailer 11y agoThat's a legitimate point and is best solved by more EV capable CAs entering the market. Which we're working towards. We're also doing some future work to make EV more affordable. I'll have more to announce in the next month. In the meantime, EV works out to be around $20 a month, which is not significantly different to what you pay for GitHub Enterprise or Trello.