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Paid SSL vs Letsencrypt (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm curious what the benefits are of paying for SSL certificates vs using a free provider such as letsencrypt.

What exactly are you trusting a cert provider with and what are the security implications? What attack vectors do you open yourself up to when trusting a certificate authority with your websites' certificates?

In what way could it benefit security and/or privacy to utilize a paid service?

And finally, which paid SSL providers are considered trustworthy?

I know Digicert is a big player, but their prices are insane. Comodo seems like a good affordable option, but is it a trustworthy company?

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do EV and OV certs actually provide additional useful? When was the last time you reviewed the certificate of a site you access for non work purposes?

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

EV certs give you an extra green bar or something along those lines. If your customers care about it, then you have to. If they don’t - and they probably don’t - it’s a waste.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

My employer had an EV cert for years on our primary domain. The C-suites, etc. thought it was important. Then one of our engineers who focuses on SEO demonstrated how the EV cert slowed down page loads enough that search engines like Google might take notice. Apparently EV certs trigger an additional lookup by the browser to confirm the extended validity.

Once the powers-that-be understood that the EV cert wasn’t offering any additional usefulness, and might be impacting our SEO performance (however small) they had us get rid of it and use a good old OV cert instead.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

Good to know! I saw that mentioned on some (apparently outdated) Comodo marketing copy as a benefit over LE