Where to get free digital certificate?

Hi all

Does anyone know where I can get a free digital certificate?

It needs to be associated with a Certification Authority which is
recognised by Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are a few 'free' ones
out there but they are only on a 30day trial. I need one that is
really free.

I want to use it so that I can digitally sign my emails to friends and
colleagues.

Many thanks
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wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a free digital certificate?
>
> It needs to be associated with a Certification Authority which is
> recognised by Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are a few 'free' ones
> out there but they are only on a 30day trial. I need one that is
> really free.
>
> I want to use it so that I can digitally sign my emails to friends and
> colleagues.
>
> Many thanks

You can make you own (won't be registered) but, if you want a cert that is
you are going to pay for it! Sorry.

To make your own look at openssl...

Imhotep

Imhotep

Imhotep wrote:

> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Does anyone know where I can get a free digital certificate?
>>
>> It needs to be associated with a Certification Authority which is
>> recognised by Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are a few 'free' ones
>> out there but they are only on a 30day trial. I need one that is
>> really free.
>>
>> I want to use it so that I can digitally sign my emails to friends and
>> colleagues.
>>
>> Many thanks
>
> You can make you own (won't be registered) but, if you want a cert that is
> you are going to pay for it! Sorry.
>
> To make your own look at openssl...
>
> Imhotep

Ah...I almost forgot. If you go with your own (ie non registered by a known
CA) you can have users add your certificate to their configuration pretty
easy both is Windows and UNIX (Linux/BSD/Etc).

Anyway, I hope that helps,
Imhotep

Imhotep

You might want to take a look at
http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot

This _may_ fill the bill for you.

Regards,
Steve

wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a free digital certificate?
>
> It needs to be associated with a Certification Authority which is
> recognised by Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are a few 'free' ones
> out there but they are only on a 30day trial. I need one that is
> really free.
>
> I want to use it so that I can digitally sign my emails to friends and
> colleagues.
>
> Many thanks

Steve Welsh

wrote:

> It needs to be associated with a Certification Authority which is
> recognised by Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are a few 'free' ones
> out there but they are only on a 30day trial. I need one that is
> really free.

CACert is free - they're working on getting their root certificate
integrated into major browsers/mail-clients/OSs by default right now,
but getting the root certificate installed yourself isn't difficult
either.

More info: http://www.cacert.org

Juergen Nieveler
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Juergen Nieveler

wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a free digital certificate?
>
> It needs to be associated with a Certification Authority which is
> recognised by Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are a few 'free' ones
> out there but they are only on a 30day trial. I need one that is
> really free.
>
Try http://www.trustcenter.de/products/express/en/
One year for free.
Probably you have to import the root certs into the browser.

Peter

> I want to use it so that I can digitally sign my emails to friends and
> colleagues.
>
> Many thanks

PeterPan

Thanks guys for the replies.

One question. If I was to create my own certificate, and obviously the
recipient will have to install it onto their system and it won't be
registered with a CA, how would I go about revoking it if I needed to
in the future?

Thanks again


On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:15:13 +1200, wrote:

>Hi all
>
>Does anyone know where I can get a free digital certificate?
>
>It needs to be associated with a Certification Authority which is
>recognised by Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are a few 'free' ones
>out there but they are only on a 30day trial. I need one that is
>really free.
>
>I want to use it so that I can digitally sign my emails to friends and
>colleagues.
>
>Many thanks
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