- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:06:04 +0100
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com>, Daniel Appelquist <appelquist@gmail.com>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > So what's the cost of a wildcard SSL certificate (someone quoted $100 in a > previous)? Is it affordable? I'm not sure why a wildcard certificate is the benchmark, but you can get unlimited wildcard certificates that last two years for personal use for a yearly verification fee of USD 60 with StartSSL. It's unclear whether Let's Encrypt will issue wildcard certificates, but they will undoubtedly cover subdomains and since it's a protocol that essentially comes down to the same thing, unless you reallly need a wildcard subdomain for some kind of service. And that's completely free. Per https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/ CloudFlare also offers wildcard certificates for free. Getting access to a certificate is not the problem. Ease of use is. Mixed Content, HSTS, renewing certificates, etc. all pose additional challenges to developers. They might be more of a challenge to non-English speakers, as with the rest of the web, since all development and documentation is primarily in the English language. That's not a problem specific to HTTPS however. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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