Any cheap S/MIME certificate?

xxsl

Hi,

Recently just want to try S/MIME certificate on my own mails,
I wonder anyone know any trustable and cheap (or free ) S/MIME certificate issuer except actalis.it
that works?

FrankRuan

Depending on how cheap you want. Email protection for individual is nowhere near expensive in most trusted authority.

https://comodosslstore.com/email-identity/email-certificate is an example.

xxsl

@FrankRuan said:
Depending on how cheap you want. Email protection for individual is nowhere near expensive in most trusted authority.

https://comodosslstore.com/email-identity/email-certificate is an example.

Thanks for this,

Have you ever tried it? It seems leak of information that whether or not the certificate still be $16.95/year (57% discount) or normal price $34.98/year when I renew next year.

FrankRuan

@xxsl said:

@FrankRuan said:
Depending on how cheap you want. Email protection for individual is nowhere near expensive in most trusted authority.

https://comodosslstore.com/email-identity/email-certificate is an example.

Thanks for this,

Have you ever tried it? It seems leak of information that whether or not the certificate still be $16.95/year (57% discount) or normal price $34.98/year when I renew next year.

I did not. I just googled it and this is the first one it popped up. Alternatively you could try Sectigo or DigiCert. The latter one is more expensive.

hyperblast

@xxsl said:
Hi,

Recently just want to try S/MIME certificate on my own mails,
I wonder anyone know any trustable and cheap (or free ) S/MIME certificate issuer except actalis.it
that works?

https://shop.certum.eu/data-safety/certum-s-mime.html

xxsl

Thanks cool guys, finally I go with a reseller of Sectigo.

hyperblast

@xxsl said:
Thanks cool guys, finally I go with a reseller of Sectigo.

this?

Personal Email Security (S/MIME)

Used for personal email
$15
Up to 20% off with multi-year 

https://www.sectigo.com/ssl-certificates-tls/email-smime-certificate

so 15$/year for one domain?

xxsl

yep, it works well. I got that cute blue tick sign on multiple mailer and devices

And the best thing is that you can generate your own key locally.
actalis.it is free but they generate key on their side which is somehow insane .

xxsl

@hyperblast said: so 15$/year for one domain?

Sorry I didn't see what you said attentively.
The certificate is not for a domain but just for one mail address.

I don't know if there are wildcard s/mime certs exist just like ssl ones.

So it's for one mail address.

JosephF

@xxsl said:

@hyperblast said: so 15$/year for one domain?

Sorry I didn't see what you said attentively.
The certificate is not for a domain but just for one mail address.

I don't know if there are wildcard s/mime certs exist just like ssl ones.

So it's for one mail address.

What benefit does using an S/MIME cert provide?

xxsl

@JosephF said: What benefit does using an S/MIME cert provide?

To get a little green check mark like this ✅ beside your mail address, it is just like some luxury in a sense.

It works like GPG/PGP mainly used for protecting emails from man-in-middle attacks like how ssl works for plain http.

jiggawatt

@JosephF said:

What benefit does using an S/MIME cert provide?

It is similar to GPG/PGP but your certificate is signed by a trusted CA. It's commonly used in law firms, for example.

let_rocks

https://www.gogetssl.com/smime-ssl/

nagasaki_castella

I'm using WISeKey.
https://wiseid.com/