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5 bucks a year for an SSL cert is peanuts.

'per year' pricing is one of the most insidious aspects of the current CA system.

Certificates don't rot.

They claim that annual renewal is necessay to protect us from a rogue but unrevoked certificate; however any malicious activities would be quite profitable well within a year.

So why not set renewal to be monthly, just to be extra-safe? Weekly? Perhaps I should suggest that to them. The resulting outcry from users might be the only way we can disrupt the CA situation.

I think the billing interval is relatively unimportant.

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