AppViewX CERT+ vs. OpenSSL vs. ZeroSSL

Improve visibility for all certificates on your network, allows for automation on certificate lifecycle, improve security and enforcement policy on certificate generation. Great role base access for users to controls the access and the certificates. Improves the visibility for management on certificates, great dashboards and reports for certificates. Self service process for users on certificate creation.

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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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• Discover digital certificates.
• Monitor digital certificates.
• Renew digital certificates.
• Provision digital certificates
• End to end certificate management solution.

• 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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• Price
• bugs
• QA for deployments

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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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Helps to shape the Private certificate infrastructure program (PKI). Helpful use cases to implement to manage the certificates lifecycle for every single phase: discovery, renew, enrollment, approval, revocation. Integration with other technologies is feasible and can improve the strategy for companies on the time spent of PKI. The return of investment for this product is really good.

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AppViewX CERT+ is the best as their user experience top notch. They have built it on an open sourced platform, which gives a lot of flexibility. Their integration with other providers and CAs are good compared to the competition.

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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• Huge positive impact on our operations.
• No more certificate related outages.

• 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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