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kijin on April 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

Why does it have to be free?

Domains are not free. Servers are not free. Bandwidth is not free. Time spent confirming a domain's ownership is not free. Would you rather get free certificates from a CA whose website is littered with gaudy ads?

kaoD on April 21, 2013 | [–]

> Why does it have to be free?

Because that's what we were talking about: free certificates from StartSSL (or $8 from Comodo) which did everything that $800 certificates do.

I just meant to refute it.

sigsergv on April 21, 2013 | [–]

That's payment for green icon in the address bar, nothing more. Monopolized market of green icons.

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