Re: [cobalt-developers] SSL certificates for multiple domains

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rik Thomas wrote:

> Not sure where you see that Jeff, you are quite wrong on that one,
> Thawte's certificates are dynamic, probably one of the best certs out
> there.

Thanks for pushing me into investigating this further, Rik.  I found my
information on the "pricing" page at
"http://www.thawte.com/getinfo/products/server/pricing.html";; it says:

 Pricing
 
 SSL Server Certificate [40, 56bit]
 SSL is an efficient and very popular web server certificate.
 Average turnaround time from the receipt of your documentation
 and payment is under three business days, depending to some
 extent on your country of origin.

and then it goes on to show the two-year and one-year prices.

I just presumed that the pricing page would be definitive.  Maybe I
shouldn't have been, maybe the site is just confusing.  You decide <wry
grin>.

> >From the page:
> http://www.thawte.com/getinfo/products/server/contents.html
> 
> "Thawte SSL Server Certificates have been engineered to provide the
> flexibility to dynamically support 40-bit, 56-bit, or 128-bit encryption,
> depending on the capability of the web server and web browser being used."
> 
> That should make it perfectly clear to everyone.

Yes, as does this, which I found at:
"http://www.thawte.com/getinfo/products/server/contents.html"; when I
clicked on "More Info" for the cert:

> Note: A Thawte SSL Server Certificate is capable of providing
> 128-bit-encryption as long as you are running a 128-bit enabled
> server and your users are running 128-bit enabled browsers. If
> you want to be sure that the strongest encryption is being used
> to secure ALL your web traffic [128-bit encryption], then it
> would be advisable to use a Thawte SuperCert.

This clarifies it even more.  If only they'd fix the pricing page so we
could all be sure <wry grin>.

Jeff
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