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by sofaofthedamned 3662 days ago
That's interesting in that it is an EV certificate.

Has anybody used this?

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I registered an EV certificate. Your organisation needs to be registered, for example at the Commercial Registry Office Zurich, and a lawyer registered at a bar (in our case at the Obergericht Zürich) who signs a legal opinion of your organisation's existence. You have to sign a declaration that you are a representative of the organisation and accept the terms of service of StartSSL.

The costs were, as far as I remember, $59 for the personal certification then $149 for EV.

But that was before StartEncrypt.

You have to pay for an EV and the free one is only for personal websites
Posted on the previous HN post, uses chkconfig in the install script so basically RHEL flavours only despite saying x64 - couldn't be bothered after that
Are you kidding? It's an API. They even provide a perl script which I've used on OpenBSD and Raspbian.
StartAPI is the API, StartSSL offers a client - similar to LetsEncrypt which was the point of this submission. My point was that it billed itself as distro neutral - but failed.