"Fredly" wrote in message
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Thank you for the info!!!!

I like the Thawte free option... I was thinking we would need to buy from
Verisign and pay roughly $15 a month, per ID. What exaclty are the
differnces between a pay cert and a free cert?



Mostly what I said, that all you get as your identity in a freemail cert is
your e-mail address. That is it! The recipient won't know who you are
unless they know your e-mail address (which is in the cert and NOT the one
in the headers of the e-mail which can be bogus). You can get more
credentials identifying yourself by going through their web of trust scheme
but I don't know what their WOT notaries charge (you'll have to do that
research yourself). The freemail certs from Thawte expire after 1 year, so
you'll have to go through the process of getting a new cert and sending
digitally signed mails to your customers so they can use your public key to
encrypt their mails that they send to you.

You only need 1 mail cert to let your customers send you encrypted mails.
Each customer will need their own cert to let you send encrypted mails to
them. So you might want to look at Thawte or GeoTrust to see how their
pricing compares against Verisign to determine if you want to a fully
credentialed cert right away (rather than pay WOT notaries and take the time
to do so for a Thawte cert).

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