Sorta OT - Cheap certificate authority?

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 13:48 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:34:27 -0500,
>   Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> > Hey All -
> > 
> > I am setting up a project for a buddy on a shoe-string budget and we
> > need a site protected by SSL.  Self-signed won't cut it.  I looked at
> 
> Why not? If you are interested in protection for the communications rather
> than being involved with Verisign's protection racket then a self signed
> certificate will work just fine. If you are worried about the latter, check
> the list of CAs included by default in the browsers you expect your visitors
> to be using and check out their prices.

Because perception==reality.  It will be publicly facing, and that whole
"Firefox will not allow you to access this site without accepting that
this is an untrusted CA" thing is off-putting for most members of the
general public.