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> The difference between free and $10/year is bigger than most of us think it is.

> I agree with you that we need some good free CAs

https://www.startssl.com/ Supported by just about every browser. Entirely free. A fellow Hacker News user linked to it in a similar thread. I was impressed :)

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Last time I checked, StartSSL was not recognized by some (slightly old) browsers. I wonder if this issue has been resolved now?

Their root CA was generated in 2006. In theory, any browser shipped before 2006 will not support it unless it was added (through, for example, Windows Updates).IE7+ is supported; I haven't tested (and don't care to test) IE6.

About 3 years back I used them and back then ie6 didnt' work out of the box. And the windows root cert update didn't help either back then.

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