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Looks interesting, but I have a couple of questions: - I'm assuming you aren't signing the certificates yourself, so how do you as a business handle this? Do y

Looks interesting, but I have a couple of questions: - I'm assuming you aren't signing the certificates yourself, so how do you as a business handle this? Do you do the actual verification of users, or do you just provide the basics then hand that off to your supplier? - DigiCert (who I think are your supplier as they signed your certificate) charge $295 for a EV certificate, what the extra $174 your charge give me that they don't?

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mikemaccana 12y ago
(Mike here: posting from my old openid account because 'you're submitting too fast') DigiCert are indeed our parter CA - they do Facebook, GitHub, Stripe and Yahoo's SSL certs. We looked at a number of CAs (and actually wrote code against their APIs when we were testing), and chose DigiCert based on a combination of EV verification time and business practices. Our retail prices are the same as DigiCert's - I suspect you're looking at the 'per year' price on https://www.digicert.com/ev-ssl-certification.htm https://www.digicert.com/ev-ssl-certification.htm. With the HN discount, you get the ability to apply for a certificate in less than a minute combined with DigiCert's fast verification practices. With CertSimple the big number is always the final price. That includes unlimited server licenses, we don't try and upsell SGC, etc. We're actually really picky things like that, see: https://certsimple.com/about https://certsimple.com/about
nailer 12y ago
Oh and to answer the other part of your question: we provide certificate application, CSR verification, and order validation before using digicert for EV verification. We also provide customers with validation advice - eg, yesterday a customer was given various options by digicams but from experience doing a lot of EV validation I know one particular mechanism is much faster than the others. The certificate was turned around in 5 hours, for the same prices, with all the value CertSimple adds.

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mikemaccana 12y ago

(Mike here: posting from my old openid account because 'you're submitting too fast') DigiCert are indeed our parter CA - they do Facebook, GitHub, Stripe and Yahoo's SSL certs. We looked at a number of CAs (and actually wrote code against their APIs when we were testing), and chose DigiCert based on a combination of EV verification time and business practices. Our retail prices are the same as DigiCert's - I suspect you're looking at the 'per year' price on https://www.digicert.com/ev-ssl-certification.htm https://www.digicert.com/ev-ssl-certification.htm. With the HN discount, you get the ability to apply for a certificate in less than a minute combined with DigiCert's fast verification practices. With CertSimple the big number is always the final price. That includes unlimited server licenses, we don't try and upsell SGC, etc. We're actually really picky things like that, see: https://certsimple.com/about https://certsimple.com/about

nailer 12y ago

Oh and to answer the other part of your question: we provide certificate application, CSR verification, and order validation before using digicert for EV verification. We also provide customers with validation advice - eg, yesterday a customer was given various options by digicams but from experience doing a lot of EV validation I know one particular mechanism is much faster than the others. The certificate was turned around in 5 hours, for the same prices, with all the value CertSimple adds.