Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Freessl (was: secure admin cert & images/connections?)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per M Knutsen wrote:

> It says on the website: http://freessl.com/
> 
> "You are not obligated to purchase anything to obtain a FreeSSL Web server
> certificate which is good for one year. And, if you wish to renew your
> FreeSSL Web server certificate next year, a minimal fee will be charged."

Ah, okay.  For the first year it's free.

As a practical matter it's going to be free as long as they offer it
because they don't have any system for registering.

My freeSSL cert finally came, and I did install it.  A day later I
rebuilt the system yet again <frown> and forgot to save my "key".  So I
went in and applied for another.  I used exactly the same information to
create a new key, and they sent me another.  I'd bet you can renew it
for free as long as they keep offering them, just by sending in the same
request again next year.

> btw: I also tried to sign up yesterday and got the same error message as
> you.

I'd also bet by now you've gotten yours.  Yes it works only with IE
browsers, as someone said, and I probably will replace it with one from
openSSL, but first I want to see if clients object to getting the
"incorrect domain name" message each time they log in.

Another option, as Ken of Precision Web pointed out to (thanks, Ken
<smile>) is to leave everyone else's site-admin function unprotected
unless they buy their own cert, but do your own site administration
tunnelling in through SSH.  I haven't figured out how to do that yet
with Tera Term; if anyone has, please contact me; I need to learn how to
use Tera Term's built in SSH tunnelling or buy someone else's program.

Jeff
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