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abbeyvet -> RE: SSL Wars: Verisign vs. Thawte (7/9/2003 15:22:12)
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I think the main advantage of having your own SSL cert is that you have your own domain name appear in the addressbar rather than the convoluted one you tend to have with a shared cert. It looks more professional.
Also if people check the cert it is issued to your host, not you, which may not always fill them with confidence.
In the end, the data is encrytped no matter what way you go, which is the main object of the exercise.
It is amazing to me how little it all seems to matter to many people though. Just yesterday I was about to set up some paid listings in a niche portal to a site of mine. It required a cc payment of over $300, and I was expected to put the cc number in on a standard http: connection. This site has hundreds, possibly thousands of paid listings, visitor numbers in the hundreds of thousands a week and when I asked about another way of paying I was made to feel I was being very awkward and that nobody else had complained. Go figure.
By the way I think there is a little more information at this site than the one previously posted about sslcerts
http://www.whichssl.org/
it also may be a little more unbiased as the .com one is owned by Comedo, who own instantSSL!!
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