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In what way is a StartSSL certificate any different from a Comodo certificate? What makes StartSSL only usable for "playing"?

• chmike 13y ago
  Free StartSSL are for non commercial usage. This is, I guess, what he means by "for playing", I don't know for comodo, if their certificates can be use for commercial applications.
• kijin 13y ago
  StartSSL is recognized by OS X 10.5 or later, and Windows 7 or later. Older OSes might not recognize it if the user has missed any updates. I'm OK with showing IE6/7 users a polite suggestion to upgrade, but a certificate error looks unprofessional. In addition, Chrome on XP is also affected (if the user has missed the CA update) because Chrome doesn't carry its own list of trusted CAs.
  • caf 13y ago
    If someone's browsing the internet with unpatched XP then they've got bigger problems than some certificate warnings appearing.
    • kijin 13y ago
      That's their problem, not yours. Remember, we're talking about Chrome here, not IE6/7.