Best way to get a SSL certificate?

[craigdawg]

My LAN vendor is telling me that I need to get a SSL certificate to securely run OWA (Outlook Web Access). Does anyone have any advice on how to go about doing this in a cost-effective manner?

Thanks in advance for your help! :)

[jdechko]

It's something that's not really cheap to do. A company I worked for looked in to getting a secure certificate to digitially sign our drawings that we sent out. VeriSign (www.verisign.com) sells security certificates for 400-1800 USD. A web search might reveal some more cost effective methods. Good Luck, though.

[denm316]

My LAN vendor is telling me that I need to get a SSL certificate to securely run OWA (Outlook Web Access). Does anyone have any advice on how to go about doing this in a cost-effective manner?

Thanks in advance for your help! :)

You can run OWA without SSL, more secure with it however. SSL does sometimes slow it down a bit, depends on connections and server hardware.

You can get free test certificates from Verisign or Thawte. Thawte is a division of Verisign and they were who I used for my OWA cert, the reason is because the cert itself seemed to authenticate quicker then the Verisign one.

[therevolution]

If it doesn't need to be from Verisign, you can make one yourself for free with OpenSSL. To get started, you can check out this link (http://www.pseudonym.org/ssl/ssl_cook.html), or you can find plenty of others if you google for something like "openssl create certificate".

[superbovine]

If you don't need verisign checkout there competetion

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp
http://www.registerfly.com/ssl/index.php

[hmmfe]

My LAN vendor is telling me that I need to get a SSL certificate to securely run OWA (Outlook Web Access). Does anyone have any advice on how to go about doing this in a cost-effective manner?

Thanks in advance for your help! :)

Two ways:

1. Create your own certificate using MS Certificate services. This is not the best approach since it is not a "trusted" certificate but is free.

2. Purchase an SSL certificate online. They generally run between $30.00 and $150.00 depending on where you get them.

[httpd]

If you don't need verisign checkout there competetion

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp
http://www.registerfly.com/ssl/index.php

Also look at GeoTrusts quick ssl
http://www.geotrust.com/web_security/index.htm

[panphage]

If you actually want real security and trusted business verification, I like http://www.geotrust.com because they own the root signing certificate. Their prices are not dirt cheap but affordable. If it's for business, I'd use GeoTrust. If it's for personal use, I just sign it myself.

[varmit]

Make your own. No need to pay someone else for this. Especially if its just for company email and its employees. http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/SSL_Enabling_OWA_2003.html

Spent: only a few minutes, with no dollars.

[craigdawg]

Thanks everyone for the great advice! I'll talk to my vendor about creating our own.

craig