X.509 Certs For Personal Use

Christopher LILJENSTOLPE cdl at asgaard.org
Sat Feb 18 19:04:21 UTC 2012


Greetings I'll +1 Chris's experience with startssl

On 18Feb2012, at 10.57, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Peach <john-nanog at johnpeach.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:27:05 +0100
>> Phil Regnauld <regnauld at nsrc.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> toor (lists) writes:
>>>> I use http://www.startssl.com/ for all my personal certifcates. I have
>>>> not had any issues with the validations (once you have an account you
>>>> can validate a domain by sending an email to a predefined list of
>>>> contact addresses) and the certificates are issued instantly.
>>> 
>>>       "Your request is being held up for review by our personnel".
>>> 
>>>       Up to 6 hours. Must be their definition of instant :)
>> 
>> It's nice to see that they actually do random reviews, rather than just
>> issuing everything requested. I use startssl and have not had anything
>> held for review.
> 
> I've had most of mine held, but almost always I get a response in side
> of 20 mins. Really, what I care about here is:
>  1) cert validates in almost all clients (mozilla/chrome/mail.app)
>  2) controlled/secured by my key, not something made up on the server side
>  3) not paying money for random bytes.
> 
> it works and eddy's pretty quick on requests.
> 
> -chris
> 
>>> 
>>>       Cheers,
>>>       Phil
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> John
>> 
> 

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