[Cryptography] [cryptography] NIST Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Sat May 16 13:00:27 EDT 2015


In article <d53ea3b1a1c6c89211f0ceeeee1fd536.squirrel at clueserver.org> you write:
>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:
>
>> 4. A certificate costs at least several hundred dollars. Multiply that
>> against a hundred .gov websites that use certificates.

What?  Comodo certs cost $9/yr or $15/three years.  Startcom certs are free.  Even EV
certs are in the $99 range.

>The pain is that you have to have a separate IP address for each domain.
>This is a problem for multiple domains hosted on the same IP address.

What?  Web servers and browsers have supported SNI for years.  If
you're worried about software so old that it doesn't, you're talking
about Windows XP and Safari 3.0.

R's,
John


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