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[Discuss] Who sells the least expensive SSL certs right now?



On 12/22/2014 11:25 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> Now granted, these arguments are about whether slartssl should be in the
> firefox keystore,

I take the first citation as being a rant that StartCom should be held 
accountable for Heartbleed fallout. No. It's not Vendor A's 
responsibility to change the terms of a contract in a way favorable to 
you and unfavorable to it when Vender B screws the pooch. Not even if 
Vendor B is an open source project like OpenSSL and the pooch in 
question is SSL itself.

The second citation is just a weak argument. Commercial CAs aren't it 
for security. They're in it for money. I don't care if you name StartSSL 
or Comodo or Symantec. They're all driven by profits first, security 
somewhere after.

-- 
Rich P.



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