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Currently we’re paying ~$130/year for Network Solutions SSL certs for our servers. I’ve seen offers for a 10 computer SSL cert from Versisign for $2750, all the way down to a wildcard domain security certificate from GoDaddy for $100.

What’s the difference? It seems my Googled answers all come from people selling certs, and they have the best ones, of course.

Thanks–

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What use are you using them for? For securing our SSL web sites for employees we use the $20 certs from GoDaddy.

For commerce we go for the $100 Network Solutions certs.

I’ve personally seen no different in behavior or acceptance. Performance is indifferent 128bit is 128bit.

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verisign seems to be very well accepted, GoDaddy is OK but I would stay away from wildcard certs as they can cause certificate errors which confound users.

It really does not matter where you get the certs just be sure they are a trusted company. I only use Thawte as I have a long relationship with them

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We signed up with DigiCert about a year ago and have been happy. The main reason for using them over Verisign was cost.

I agree with Robert5064 it is all about trust. There are not many technical differences (at least that I am aware of).

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Kevin: These will be used for everything from ecommerce to VPN authentication…

Robert: The wildcard note is something I hadn’t heard before. I didn’t know they could be troublesome.

I also went back to the GoDaddy site, and see that actually the pricing wasn’t for a wildcard certificate, but what they call a “Multiple Domains Certificate” or a “Unified Communications Certificate”. This is also the same terminology used at Verisign’s site.

I would have thought that was just another term for wildcard certificate, but apparently it isn’t as the GoDaddy pdf brochure indicates that they ALSO offer wildcard certs.

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Odd I havn’t come across any browser issues with wildcards yet. Can you elaborate some more?