Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of faq/security/get-certificate

Timestamp:

May 13, 2011, 6:16:31 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

Removing reference to startssl.com in honor of the Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment campaign

faq/security/get-certificate

@@ -14 +14 @@
  * The certificate signing request is the non-confidential file generated based on your private key that you submit to a certificate authority
 
-Then, you will need to submit your certificate signing request to a certificate authority, such as [http://startssl.com StartSSL], [http://rapidssl.com RapidSSL] or [http://cacert.org cacert]. I've never tried StartSSL, but they will provide certificates for free that they claim work in all major browsers. RapidSSL costs $79 per certificate and can generate a certificate for you that will be accepted by nearly all browsers on the planet. cacert will generate a certificate for free but users will need to import the cacert root certificate or they will get errors. We have a [ticket:1706 raging debate] about which approach is the best to take.
+Then, you will need to submit your certificate signing request to a certificate authority, such as [http://rapidssl.com RapidSSL] or [http://cacert.org cacert]. RapidSSL costs $79 per certificate and can generate a certificate for you that will be accepted by nearly all browsers on the planet. cacert will generate a certificate for free but users will need to import the cacert root certificate or they will get errors. We have a [ticket:1706 raging debate] about which approach is the best to take.
  
 In these examples domain.csr and domain.key are the file names provided. These filenames are arbitrary and can be anything you want (for example, I would recommend replacing domain with your actual domain, e.g. mayfirst.org.key and mayfirst.org.csr, so it is easier to keep track of the domains for which they are being generated.