SSL certificates for a web site are pretty cheap, as is SSL-capable web hosting. However, for development reasons, I need a wildcard certificate and refuse to pay the several hundred dollars (annual) fee to a commercial CA to get one.
Long story short: if you’re trying to log in here (so you can post and such), your browser is probably warning you that my SSL certificate isn’t signed by a Certificate Authority that the browser knows. If you wish to solve this and help support a free community-based CA (CAcert.org), read on. If not, you can skip this.
To import the CAcert’s Root Certificate (allowing you to determine if CAcert’s customer certificates are valid or not), please visit their root certificate page.
In case you wish one more data point to verify the certificates, here are their fingerprints as I see them:
- Class 1 root certificate (the important one)
- SHA1:
13:5C:EC:36:F4:9C: B8:E9:3B:1A:B2:70: CD:80:88:46:76:CE: 8F:33 - MD5:
A6:1B:37:5E:39:0D: 9C:36:54:EE:BD:20: 31:46:1F:6B
- SHA1:
- Class 3 root certificate
- SHA1:
DB:4C:42:69:07:3F: E9:C2:A3:7D:89:0A: 5C:1B:18:C4:18:4E: 2A:2D - MD5:
73:3F:35:54:1D:44: C9:E9:5A:4A:EF:51: AD:03:06:B6
- SHA1:
