Ask HN: Best place to buy SSL from?
It has been a while since I have bought an SSL cert. I used to use Comodo. They're alright, but nothing special.
Is there an SSL provider that people actually like?
Is there an SSL provider that people actually like?
If you use Stripe, Twitter, npm, or your bank, you'll see the company name in a green bar. That's an EV certificate and is the only way for a website to prove a company's identity.
EV certs are great, particularly if you're selling something or people are logging into your site.
Since they involve a bunch of verification, the industry standard time get the certificate is normally about 7-21 days.
https://certsimple.com, my company, live checks data while you enter to do EV in an average of 5 hours. It takes 80 seconds to apply, including making the CSR - no Q and A in a terminal, no installing anything, just cut and paste.
Because of this, we're faster at EV than everyone else.
We also give 5% of our revenue to groups that make strong crypto happen - we cut our first cheque to OpenBSD Foundation last Friday. We also publish a bunch of interesting research around performance and security at http://certsimple.com, including OSS code to recreate our results.
Hope that helps! Email me any time at mike@certsimple.com if you have questions.
Mike
PS. if you don't need EV, we recommend you get a free certificate from http://letsencrypt.org which should be launching soon.
Not to mention it has configuration templates that make getting a best practice config for almost everything you would use a SSL cert on. https://sslmate.com/blog/post/sslmate_mkconfig
On a side note, I would only buy one year certificates at this point, because Lets Encrypt is about to make them free.