On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:21:38AM +0100, Tony Finch said:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> >
> > They're somewhat cheaper from Thawte, I think. <http://www.thawte.com/>
>
> Unfortunately Thawte is getting increasingly expensive. First they
> withdrew wildcard certificates, so we had to buy four
> (smtp/imap/pop/webmail) instead of one (*). Then they started licensing
> per machine (of which we have several). Our certificate renewal this year
> cost over ?2000.
>
> I'd suggest buying from a registrar that isn't owned by Verisign.
Instantssl is MUCH less expensive, but you have to play with the
certificate chain a bit. Wildcards are affordable (unlike thawte).
