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  • DigiCert provides five type of server certificates.

 

  • The experience of recent years shows that server certificates are requested most frequently. If you don't know which certificate you should order, opt for Unified Communications .

  • If you are thinking to apply for SSL Plus choose instead a Unified Communications. Similarly avoid EV SSL Plus and go for EV Multi Domain. Both SSL Plus varieties are cheap for people buying individual certs; in the TCS contract use the better varieties that allow Subject Alternative Names and 4096 bit keys.

  • For Unified Communications the portal claims it is possible to have 25 Subject Alternative Names. In reality, more than 100 SANs have been tested successfully.

  • The WildCard Plus variant unfortunately has no free choice Subject Alternative Names. They are limited to one Common Name (* .an.example.nl), but the corresponding non-wild domain (an.example.nl) will be included in the certificate. Digicert might change this in the future, but at the moment there is no date if/when this will happen.
  • Make moderately use of Extended Validation certificates. Use them for your important public Web sites, but not for server-server connections and choose a policy that does justice to the terms of use .
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