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StartCom offers the free (for personal use) Class 1 X.509 SSL certificate "StartSSL Free", which works for webservers (SSL/TLS) as well as for E-mail encryption (S/MIME). StartCom also offers Class 2 and 3 certificates as well as Extended Validation Certificates, where...

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  • Freemium
  • Proprietary

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  • Discontinued
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  • Online
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Discontinued

StartSSL and StratCom have been closed on January 1st 2018

Warning

StartCom was bought by shady Chinese certificate authority WoSign. Due to the many cases of misissuance and deception by WoSign both certificate authorities have been distrusted by Google, Mozilla, and Apple: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-and-startcom.html | They also handled the Heartbleed situation extremely poorly: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140409/11442426859/shameful-security-startcom-charges-people-to-revoke-ssl-certs-vulnerable-to-heartbleed.shtml

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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    free version with limited functionality.

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
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What is StartSSL?

StartCom offers the free (for personal use) Class 1 X.509 SSL certificate "StartSSL Free", which works for webservers (SSL/TLS) as well as for E-mail encryption (S/MIME). StartCom also offers Class 2 and 3 certificates as well as Extended Validation Certificates, where a comprehensive validation (with costs) is mandatory.

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