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Subject: Re: [boost] [website] SSL certificate
From: OvermindDL1 (overminddl1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-17 20:12:31


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Bryce Lelbach aka wash
<admin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 08/16/2010 01:54 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> If we still don't have a valid cert, we should cert-ainly (sorry)
>> consider taking Bryce up on his offer.  Bryce, is this a wildcard
>> cert?  If not, how can it work for our subdomains?
>>
>
> GoDaddy is now offering open source projects free SSL certificates for a
> year (there may be fine print or flags attached, but it's worth
> investigating.
> http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp?ci=21422). Boost
> would certainly qualify. I'm not sure if they're offering wildcard or
> UCC certificates, but at the least, it would be nice to have a
> certificate signed by a more commonly recognized CA for SVN.

As I recall, http://www.startssl.com/ offers free free certificates
and this CA (StartCom) is recognized by IE, Firefox, Chrome, and
others.


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