Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Stephen Young
One way to offer some improvements might be to be persuade one of the Root CAs to let you manage multiple flavored "certifications" server-side and provide access by API, browser plugin and web-site to a transparent public database of the all issued certificates - so you can see the "pedigree" of t

Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Sean Marshall
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Ben Sand wrote: > > Consider that Cisco is a root authority, as is Dell, as is Microsoft > and they are in most browsers. Given they provide the infrastructure, > they may be coerced by government, or compromised in such a way as to > create SSL certs to facilitate

Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Ben Sand
Late to the party with this, it got bounced yesterday. SSL certs can be obtained for free from http://cert.startcom.org/ and they work without warning in most browsers: https://forum.startcom.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1802 If you want one that's guaranteed to work in even really old browsers witho

Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Clifford Heath
On 01/12/2010, at 9:44 AM, Stephen Young wrote: There's an opportunity, I believe, to re-purpose the whole SSL "web of trust" system towards other digital age issues. The term "web of trust" was used to describe the non-hierarchical system of trust that PGP used. SSL is not really a web of trus

Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Ben Sand
The opportunity here for multiple types of certification is immense. We also desperately need a way to allow multiple authorities to sign one domain. At present there are hundreds, if not thousands of root authorities registered in the browser. If any one of them were compromised SSL would be prone

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for SEO expertise

2010-11-30 Thread Jeremy Champion
Hi, I'd use James from Atomic Search in the city! Great guy, trustworthy & results focussed. Cheers Jeremy > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:32:58 -0800 > Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for SEO expertise > From: sarahkr...@hotmail.com > To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > > Hi S

Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Stephen Young
Generating certificates is actually a pretty trivial task. What you pay for when you buy one is the ancilliary services - the "trust" you get from a recognized Certification Authority and the integrity of its issuing process. There's an opportunity, I believe, to re-purpose the whole SSL "web of

[SiliconBeach] Re: Yet more great Aussie tech funded! Accel invested in OzForex today

2010-11-30 Thread Matthew Griffiths
Good point - similar things happened in Finland (with Nokia) and Sweden (with Ericsson). Of course, it's very hard to get things off the ground without money (a key issue in Australia). I thought this was an interesting article... http://business.ezinemark.com/smsf-s-the-missing-link-in-the-innov

[SiliconBeach] Re: Yet more great Aussie tech funded! Accel invested in OzForex today

2010-11-30 Thread Niki Scevak
I think it all misses the point as soon as you try to sum things up in a top-down way. The way to build a community is block by block and the only really thing that matters is that successful companies get built with a certain culture which then spawn other startups. Also those type of companies do

[SiliconBeach] Re: SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread VB
> You can get a cert for as little as $9.95 which will be just as good > as the $400 one. That depends what level of trust you want your users to have in your site. For $10 you only get a domain verification certificate, which does nothing but avoid the browser validation errors but that's about

Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Graham Weldon
I'm a reseller, and can sell certificates that essentially come from GeoTrust. Certificate types: http://www.geotrust.com/ssl/ssl-certificates/ Pricing: Quick SSL - $130.00 (1 year), $240 (2 years) Quick SSL Premium - $260 (1 year), $430 (2 years) True Business - $330 (1 year), $490 (2 years) Tr

[SiliconBeach] Re: SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Mitchell Ribar
Per Stephen Young's reply, we also use GoDaddy. $50 per year for standard cert, $100 per year for EV cert. Further, if financial protection guarantees have any bearing on your decision, you get $10k and $250k respectively. No point paying more, certs are, by and large, a commodity item. On No

[SiliconBeach] Re: Who are the richest people in Australia's tech sector?

2010-11-30 Thread alan jones
Hi Renai, I understand the curiosity but much of the money made in the startup sector is made in transactions where values are not disclosed, because the companies involved aren't listed on ASX/NASDAQ or aren't required to report to that level of detail. There are local startups that are mostly o

Re: [SiliconBeach] SSL Certificate Providers

2010-11-30 Thread Michael Guilfoyle
You can get a cert for as little as $9.95 which will be just as good as the $400 one.Check the feature comparison as the higher priced ones simply have higher levels of insurance, business identity checks (of you) and logos and other fluffy stuff. If your transactions size and levels are low then y