Certify me. Or at least the site. October 20, 2007 2:12 PM  
Subscribe  I need a cheap, trustworthy, reliable certificate for
a web application for a non-profit, and a walkthrough on how SSL
is set up and used.  I'm in process of wrapping up a web app
(read: much further away than I think) to prepare it for
transfer off my local machine to the webhost, and it's only just
now occurred to me that I need a certificate to have encrypted
connections.  Currently none of the pages are accessible without
logging in, and the passwords are both hashed and salted, but
all that's for naught if the username/password pair is sent in
plaintext. And, after thinking about it a bit, I decided I
wanted all traffic to and from the site to be encrypted. (It's a
database of local volunteers: real names, mailing addresses,
email addresses, phone numbers, etc.)  I've looked through these
posts and found this thread, this thread, and this comment
useful for finding cheap certificate sellers. From those
discussions I'm leaning towards