Re: Certificate vendors

[Jack Suess <jack () UMBC EDU>]

Colleagues,

Please compare the pricing for the Comodo certs, or any vendor, with that at InCommon -  
http://incommonfederation.org/cert  . In the spirit of disclosure, I am on InCommon Steering and my institution (UMBC) 
has signed up.

InCommon is using the Comodo cert service but I think we have even stronger pricing and we will ultimately have a much 
more complete package. This was launched in May and we already have 79 institutions signed up -- 
http://www.incommonfederation.org/cert/subscribers.cfm  . We expect that this will save most universities significant 
amounts of money and also form the basis for a variety of new and interesting services.

This service will also cover unlimited personal certs, EV certs, and some other cert services. We have a group of 
experts validating how to best deploy personal certs and will be communicating that in the spring when the group 
completes its work.  This is really a great opportunity to leverage resources in the community to advance security in a 
variety of ways.

Jack Suess, VP of IT, UMBC   







On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Rob Tanner wrote:

> We are currently using Thawte for all our certificates and Thawte is pretty pricey.  Comodo’s pricing, by comparison, 
> seems almost to good to be true.  Is anybody using Comodo for their SSL certificates and have you anything 
> particularly positive to say or, and more to the point, any warnings or red flags?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Rob Tanner
> UNIX Services Manager
> Linfield College, McMinnville Oregon

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