Self-Signed Certificates: Beware, Free Can Very Costly.

A6H8PY7Y496C All things being equal, free is my favorite price range! The caveat I would add is that things are almost never equal when we talk about free. It might be tempting to use free “self-signed” certificates to implement SSL on your web site, unless you fully understand what you are not getting with it. We all know about what happens when we are penny wise! When a user connects to an SSL site a message is sent with the certificate information required to setup a secured connection. It must include the name of the certificate "signer" which is either: the creator of the certificate...

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