Re: How to properly install and configure mod_ssl on RHEL 4?

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Mike Kercher wrote

> An SSL cert from http://www.rapidssl.com/index_ssl.htm is much cheaper that
> 350
>  

I was hoping someone would come up with that sort of reply!

Of course, the more you pay for a certificate, the more users of the web 
site are likely to trust you.   I still think that a certificate should 
include the amount paid for it: someone prepared to pay, say, £10,000 
for a certificate for a web site selling ink cartridges is much less 
likely to be behaving badly than someone doing the same with a $49 
certificate.  (Quite why Verisign certificates are $350 or £350 is a bit 
of a mystery, considering the exchange rate.)

Self-signed certificates are fine for non-public web sites though.

jch