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Originally posted by AdultNex
It's free, but you get what you pay for.
Your clients will see this:
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Are you sure?
Ubiquity:
Ostensibly, this is the number of browsers which will recognize SSL certificates as valid. Browsers ?know? which certificates can be trusted because there is a list embedded within the browser software. Certificate authorities lobby browser-makers to include their certificates. As software changes, certificates get chained, SSL itself changes, old code gets left behind, and when presented with newer certificates older browsers may generate transaction errors.
Some vendors make lots of noise about ubiquity, in some cases, to distract buyers from other product deficiencies. There is precious little ?science? to determining these values, and really, anything over 95% will provide more than adequate acceptance. Very old browsers will always have a problem.
These free ones have 96% ubiquity, the thwate/versign/whatever ones have 99%. I'm guessing this means that some of the ANCIENT (4 in 100) browsers will pop up that screen, instead of the 1 in 100 from the others.