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A free SSL certificate for your web server

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No more self-signed certificates Typically for a low volume site where verified identity is not import one would use a self-signed certificate for SSL. Unfortunately these triggers security warnings in browsers and require you to recognise/remember checksums to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks when accessing your own servers over HTTPS. StartSSL offers free domain verified SSL server certificates which work pretty much everywhere. The only real downside is they have a 1 year expiry. This means you need to create a new one every year rather than say a 10 year self-signed certificate which will probably last the life of your server. These free certificates are also chained which means configuration can be a little tricky as there are a few traps you can fall into. If you don’t setup the chain correctly on your server you can run into compatibility issues with clients that may not be immediately obvious. These include either [...]

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