SSL Certificate

[Luke Schierer]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:45:05PM -0800, Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Kevin Stange <kevin at simguy.net> wrote:
> > Mark Doliner wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com> wrote:
> >>> Mark Doliner wrote:
> >>>> How do people feel about actually buying a certificate?  Is it worth
> >>>> it?  If we get a certificate for only developer.pidgin.im it's about
> >>>> $27 a year.
> >>> Where did you find a cert for $27/year?!
> >>
> >> http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?ci=8979 when buying for a
> >> single domain for 2 or more years.
> >>
> >
> > I can get us a cert for $19.95 per year or less possibly through work:
> >
> > http://steadfast.net/services/ssl.php
> >
> > The certs are signed by Comodo.
> 
> Alright, I bought a 5 year certificate from Steadfast/Comodo at the
> discounted rate of $14.95 per year (because they like us :-) ).  It's
> now installed on developer.pidgin.im, and is only used for
> https://developer.pidgin.im/login.  Let me know if you notice any
> problems.  Also, there were a some files in the /etc/ssl/certs/ and
> /etc/ssl/private/ directories on imperial that I suspect are no longer
> being used.  I created an "old" subdirectory and moved the files
> there.  If that breaks anything we can move them back.
> 
> And I got a free StartCom certificate through xmpp.org
> (http://xmpp.org/ca/) which we're using for ejabberd on
> rock.pidgin.im.
> 
> -Mark

If we get a donation page up, we should also have one for rock's http
server install.

Luke