Getting one for cheap isn't the problem.  It's getting one for cheap 
from a certificate authority who's in the trust store of the application 
you want to use.  i.e. I can become a certificate authority myself and 
give you one for free, but browsers would bitch-slap you on the 
handshake.  What sort of an application are you designing?

Brian Densmore wrote:

>Anyone have one? Anyone know where to get them, without having to sell
>your firstborn?
>Anyone know of a project/CA to provide server certs for
>individuals/nonprofits, 
>or interested in starting one up? I know I can sign my own, although
>last time I tried
>it didn't seem right, and then I am not part of some larger approval
>group.
>
>disgusted,
>Brian
>
> "Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass, 
>Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow, 
>Nine from dotcoms doomed to die, 
>one from the dark lord Gates on his dark throne 
>In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. 
>one OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, 
>one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, 
>In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie."    john thrum
>
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