I’m curious what the benefits are of paying for SSL certificates vs using a free provider such as letsencrypt.

What exactly are you trusting a cert provider with and what are the security implications? What attack vectors do you open yourself up to when trusting a certificate authority with your websites’ certificates?

In what way could it benefit security and/or privacy to utilize a paid service?

And finally, which paid SSL providers are considered trustworthy?

I know Digicert is a big player, but their prices are insane. Comodo seems like a good affordable option, but is it a trustworthy company?

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 months ago

    I have auto redirect to 443. But --nginx works fine. I think it overrides stuff for whatever the specific url used is.