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Editor to share with you the price of https certificate is generally how much, I hope you will learn a lot after reading this article, let's discuss it together!

Recently, due to the need to put on record to a website, considering security issues and paying attention to the demand for SSL certificates in https, I was surprised to find that the certificate was so expensive. I only discovered this situation after graduating from network engineering for many years. Now let me take you to know what the price of https certificate is.

I can only say that the https certificate fee for a certain platform is ruthless, but why is the https certificate so expensive? Some people say they don't understand. They think that SSL certificate is not just an e-cert, why does https certificate charge? Is it for businessmen to make exorbitant profits? However, this is not the case.

First of all, you should know that you are qualified to issue a trusted SSL certificate, which results in one of the high costs of https certificates. To manage a Public Trusted CA is very expensive, not to mention the annual WebTrust audit, encryption machines and other supporting services, the high level of security requirements of the optical computer room, is not the average company can do. In addition, there are expensive annual certificate insurance and other fees. Secondly, in the specific issuance of certificates, it is well known that enterprise-type and enhanced certificates need to be strictly examined, and these processes require a large number of personnel to participate. Of course, there are DV-type SSL certificates that do not require manual verification, but such certificates can be used on personal websites, and formal enterprise applications should not use such certificates.

The certificate price cost of CA company is mainly composed of: audit and verification CSR cost, support cost, legal cost (insurance fee, guarantee fee). To enter the list of root certificates for each browser, and CA institutions have to go through the WebTrust annual audit every year, which is a lot of expense. Some browser vendors also charge CA for embedding root certificate lists, infrastructure overhead, and CRL and OCSP server costs.

Verify CSR: after submitting a certificate application, CA needs to do multiple verifications. The more advanced the certificate (such as EV certificate), the more troublesome it is to verify. There is no fixed cost, and some take a lot of manpower and time to complete.

Legal expenses: CA has to buy insurance, and the premium won't run away.

CA chain cost: the new CA company will have to wait 5-10 years before it can be widely trusted before it can widely enter the root certificate chain. If you need to speed up the time, you have to pay for the big-name CA company in order to buy a secondary certificate.

After reading this article, I believe you have a certain understanding of the price of https certificate. If you want to know more about it, welcome to follow the industry information channel. Thank you for your reading!

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