On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:49:33PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Colm Buckley wrote:
>> > Not quite; you only buy one cert, as with (1), but you buy
> > additional "server licenses" for that certificate. These are
> > usually cheaper than full certificates.
>> [snip]
>> > No, you buy a cert for www.mydomain.com, and copy it to all N servers.
>> just curious, but is SSL not hierarchical? Ie you can buy some kind
> of cert, signed by $CA and then create your own certs, signing them
> with your $CA signed cert?
costs lots though, according to some CAs i have spoken to, 500K+
Colin
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