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[OT] Comodo as a CA

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All,

I'm asking the Tomcat community this because everyone always surprises
me with their wide customer experiences.

I need to get new SSL certs for a domain name switch we're doing, soon.
VeriSign's SGC/EV SSL certs are ridiculously expensive and so I'm
looking for alternatives. Comodo offers a product that is
indistinguishable (to me) to VeriSign's SGC/EV cert, but it costs 1/4 as
much.

Does anyone have any experience with Comodo? Specifically, has anyone
run across any customers whose browsers do not trust Comodo as a CA?

Thanks,
- -chris
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Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA

Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Carl,

Carl wrote:
| Have never used Comodo but have used Thawte which is in the same general
| price range as Comodo.  Good experience, support was helpful when we
| made some dumb errors.

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, I need an EV SGC cert which
Thawte doesn't provide. Apparently, they leave those high-value certs
for their parent company (VeriSign) to sell :(

Comodo has what I'm looking for, but I'm a bit nervous about their
browser support. I got onto online (chat) support and the rep I got was
a complete idiot. I asked 3 questions (total) and the conversation
lasted for 55 minutes (because I was waiting for him to go STFW for the
answers).

Glad to hear that you got good support. I was at sales support, not tech
support, so there may be a world of difference, there.

- -chris

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Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA

Posted by Carl <ca...@etrak-plus.com>.
Aggressive marketing, aggressive pricing, no functional advantages.  Their 
support was not quite as good as Thawte (Thawte's doc's are very clear) as 
Verisign's response time was a little longer than Thawte's (neither was 
awful.)

Thanks,

Carl

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> Hi Carl
>
> Thanks for Thawte feedback
> Whats your take on Verisign?
>
> this is O/T Feel free to ping me offline
>
> Thanks
> Martin
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> From: "Carl" <ca...@etrak-plus.com>
> To: "Tomcat Users List" <us...@tomcat.apache.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:33 AM
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>> Have never used Comodo but have used Thawte which is in the same general 
>> price range as Comodo.  Good experience, support was helpful when we made 
>> some dumb errors.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Carl
>>
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>> From: "Christopher Schultz" <ch...@christopherschultz.net>
>> To: "Tomcat Users List" <us...@tomcat.apache.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA
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>>> Christopher Schultz wrote:
>>> | All,
>>> |
>>> | I'm asking the Tomcat community this because everyone always surprises
>>> | me with their wide customer experiences.
>>> |
>>> | I need to get new SSL certs for a domain name switch we're doing, 
>>> soon.
>>> | VeriSign's SGC/EV SSL certs are ridiculously expensive and so I'm
>>> | looking for alternatives. Comodo offers a product that is
>>> | indistinguishable (to me) to VeriSign's SGC/EV cert, but it costs 1/4 
>>> as
>>> | much.
>>> |
>>> | Does anyone have any experience with Comodo? Specifically, has anyone
>>> | run across any customers whose browsers do not trust Comodo as a CA?
>>> |
>>> | Thanks,
>>> | -chris
>>>
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Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA

Posted by Martin Gainty <mg...@hotmail.com>.
Hi Carl

Thanks for Thawte feedback
Whats your take on Verisign?

this is O/T Feel free to ping me offline

Thanks
Martin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl" <ca...@etrak-plus.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <us...@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA


> Have never used Comodo but have used Thawte which is in the same general 
> price range as Comodo.  Good experience, support was helpful when we made 
> some dumb errors.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christopher Schultz" <ch...@christopherschultz.net>
> To: "Tomcat Users List" <us...@tomcat.apache.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA
>
>
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>>
>> Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> | All,
>> |
>> | I'm asking the Tomcat community this because everyone always surprises
>> | me with their wide customer experiences.
>> |
>> | I need to get new SSL certs for a domain name switch we're doing, soon.
>> | VeriSign's SGC/EV SSL certs are ridiculously expensive and so I'm
>> | looking for alternatives. Comodo offers a product that is
>> | indistinguishable (to me) to VeriSign's SGC/EV cert, but it costs 1/4 
>> as
>> | much.
>> |
>> | Does anyone have any experience with Comodo? Specifically, has anyone
>> | run across any customers whose browsers do not trust Comodo as a CA?
>> |
>> | Thanks,
>> | -chris
>>
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Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA

Posted by Carl <ca...@etrak-plus.com>.
Have never used Comodo but have used Thawte which is in the same general 
price range as Comodo.  Good experience, support was helpful when we made 
some dumb errors.

Thanks,

Carl

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Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA


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> Christopher Schultz wrote:
> | All,
> |
> | I'm asking the Tomcat community this because everyone always surprises
> | me with their wide customer experiences.
> |
> | I need to get new SSL certs for a domain name switch we're doing, soon.
> | VeriSign's SGC/EV SSL certs are ridiculously expensive and so I'm
> | looking for alternatives. Comodo offers a product that is
> | indistinguishable (to me) to VeriSign's SGC/EV cert, but it costs 1/4 as
> | much.
> |
> | Does anyone have any experience with Comodo? Specifically, has anyone
> | run across any customers whose browsers do not trust Comodo as a CA?
> |
> | Thanks,
> | -chris
>
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Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA

Posted by David Smith <dn...@cornell.edu>.
I used Comodo a couple of years ago.  Only changed vendors when the 
university started a contract w/ another vendor and offered them to 
departments for free.  Never had a problem with Comodo although I did 
have to make sure the certificate chain was available to the client.  
That got me around the whole browser trust problem back when Comodo 
wasn't well known.

--David

Christopher Schultz wrote:
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> Christopher Schultz wrote:
> | All,
> |
> | I'm asking the Tomcat community this because everyone always surprises
> | me with their wide customer experiences.
> |
> | I need to get new SSL certs for a domain name switch we're doing, soon.
> | VeriSign's SGC/EV SSL certs are ridiculously expensive and so I'm
> | looking for alternatives. Comodo offers a product that is
> | indistinguishable (to me) to VeriSign's SGC/EV cert, but it costs 
> 1/4 as
> | much.
> |
> | Does anyone have any experience with Comodo? Specifically, has anyone
> | run across any customers whose browsers do not trust Comodo as a CA?
> |
> | Thanks,
> | -chris
>
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Re: [OT] Comodo as a CA

Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Anyone?

Christopher Schultz wrote:
| All,
|
| I'm asking the Tomcat community this because everyone always surprises
| me with their wide customer experiences.
|
| I need to get new SSL certs for a domain name switch we're doing, soon.
| VeriSign's SGC/EV SSL certs are ridiculously expensive and so I'm
| looking for alternatives. Comodo offers a product that is
| indistinguishable (to me) to VeriSign's SGC/EV cert, but it costs 1/4 as
| much.
|
| Does anyone have any experience with Comodo? Specifically, has anyone
| run across any customers whose browsers do not trust Comodo as a CA?
|
| Thanks,
| -chris

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