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Choosing an ssl certificate vendor
According to GeoTrust Lockhart there are several things that buyers should look for when purchasing a certificate:
Reputation and credibility of the CA (How long have they been in business? Do they have lots of customers?)
Ubiquity of the root (is it embedded in all of the popular browsers?)
Root is owned by the CA (and not chained to someone else's root)
Lifecycle management tools (how easy is it to install, renew, reinstall, and revoke if compromised, etc.)
Ease of acquiring the certificate
Who is doing the vetting (is it the CA itself, or in the case of some resellers, do they delegate this to their resellers?)
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