{"id":5,"date":"2007-11-30T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T13:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-11-04T13:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T13:47:35","slug":"where-to-get-a-free-smime-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Where to get a free S\/MIME certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two sites that I would recommend for getting free certs  are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thawte.com\/email\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thawte<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.comodo.com\/products\/frontpage?area=SecureEmailCertificate\" target=\"_blank\">Comodo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cacert.org\/index.php?id=1\" target=\"_blank\">CAcert<\/a> is another site worth recommendation but their certs are not recognized by common mail clients; they work just fine but you have to understand how to import the CA root certificates. You can, of course, roll your own using <a href=\"http:\/\/openssl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenSSL<\/a>  or Mozilla <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/security\/pki\/nss\/smime\/\" target=\"_blank\">NSS<\/a> but that is a topic for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Mozillazine have a good <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Getting_an_SMIME_certificate\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a> on free certs.<\/p>\n<p>[edit: Thawte service discontinued as of 16-Nov-2009]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two sites that I would recommend for getting free certs are Thawte and Comodo CAcert is another site worth recommendation but their certs are not recognized by common mail clients; they work just fine but you have to understand how to import the CA root certificates. You can, of course, roll your own using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crypto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eriugena.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}