Preamble A while ago, I signed up for Letsencrypt – a free, short-duration, open-source trusted CA service that runs locally on your machine and is aimed at developers and web geeks who want to secure their web apps without either paying through the nose for SSL certs issued by the likes of VeriSign or DigiCert.
As a side note, DigiCert are amazing and if you are an enterprise user who needs an incredibly fast, flexible and reasonably-priced certificate provider, you should definitely look into using them. ...