SSL Cert

irlhost · 10-04-2003 11:20am #1

I have two questions for the board:

1) What SSL secure cert do/would you use on a website?

2) Would you as a user be happy shopping online and using your credit card on a secure site?

Nyx · 11-04-2003 10:18am

i don't know about the first question, but for shopping online, i usually rely on friends recommendations. ie. if they've not had a problem with credit cards etc, then thats my cue.
i try to stick with the "big" websites ie amazon, cdwow etc my reasoning being that if there was an error, they'd be easier to deal with.

flav0rflav · 11-04-2003 2:52pm

1) Depends on how much you wanna pay. Verisign are most expensive. Baltimore are the Irish option (middling price) and I believe Thawte are cheap. Whether price = security? Maybe, certainly if you listen to Verisigns speel about cold war bunker nuclear bomb proff key storage facility.

2) Once using SSL, transfering the credit card details over the internet is secure. People, in general, seem fine with it. People do get concerned about have their cc details stored on perhaps a not so secure server.