I’m curious what the benefits are of paying for SSL certificates vs using a free provider such as letsencrypt.

What exactly are you trusting a cert provider with and what are the security implications? What attack vectors do you open yourself up to when trusting a certificate authority with your websites’ certificates?

In what way could it benefit security and/or privacy to utilize a paid service?

And finally, which paid SSL providers are considered trustworthy?

I know Digicert is a big player, but their prices are insane. Comodo seems like a good affordable option, but is it a trustworthy company?

  • N0x0nEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeaaah I already played a bit arround with step-ca ! Right now a make a mini-CA with openssl.

    When I get more comfortable with how everything works together I will surely give step-ca another try.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I found open-ssl to be much harder to use. Do you just manually make new certificates with the CA in CLI?