Entrust Standard SSL Certificates vs. OpenSSL

Because they have been around so long and are so well known there is a high level of confidence in their product. They have a full range of PKI products and are excellent support. They have always been available whenever we had a question. I would say that they are the gold standard in PKI.

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I would recommend OpenSSL for just about any kind of cryptographic operations that you may need. I can't think of a particular situation where it would not be appropriate to use OpenSSL for a cryptographic function of some sort or another. If you are going to provide some sort of encryption service in a product, OpenSSL is probably the best way to get it off the ground and going. With other competitors, you may get it working, but I fear long term support and interoperability will be an issue.

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• The renewal process is incredibly simple.
• Turn around for new requests is very fast.
• Full email notification system for application owners.

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• integrates into just about everything
• codebase is well managed and follows predictable paths
• although there are alternatives, OpenSSL is vastly better supported

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• There are so many purveyors of SSL certificates or SSL certificate resalers today. Entrust is not competitive on price.

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• the entire project could be completely refactored while preserving the library apis
• the documentation on command line usage is not usually the best
• code examples are not very well explained

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Entrust offers an easy to use, fully featured cloud framework for certificate management. This framework is very solid and highly recommended as it gives my business the ability to remain agile while giving persistence to my overall security posture.

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LibreSSL is another option to OpenSSL, however, the sheer volume of other applications using OpenSSL and the wide support for it makes OpenSSL a compelling product.

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• Their product is necessary for us to provide modern services to our patients and still remain compliant with government regulation.

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• roi is hard to measure for openssl. It's not that it doesn't provide a significant roi, but it is in the background of an application, not the foreground.

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