CACert: Free digital certificate organization

As we all know, it is not easy to apply for an email certificate or an SSL certificate for your website or server in China, and you have to pay a lot of certificate application fees to the CA (Certificate Issuing Verification Organization) every year. Every Internet user can get a digital certificate that is elusive...

But now it's different. We have CAcert. A foreign free digital certificate issuing organization, you can register as a user for free, apply for personal certificates and server certificates. The certificate is supported by various browsers and mail clients.

As advertised on their homepage:

We have waited a long time, but we have not waited in vain, we can finally get security at a reasonable price - free!

For years, security certification bodies have charged us a lot of money. What they are doing is not worth the price. There is no need for us to spend so much money on security.

The site is available in simplified Chinese (select under the "Translate" menu on the right side of the site), although the Chinese version is not quite complete. But the main idea is basically understandable.

The steps to apply for the certificate are very simple, first you need to visit CAcert.org, select install root certificate on the right, download the root certificate and import it into your browser or mail client and other software that needs to use the certificate. Then click Join and write a registration form. Later, the email you fill in will receive a verification email, and after verification, you can go to their home page to log in (my account - Password Login). Log in successfully you can apply for a free digital certificate, please do not forget to back up after registration.

Although the certificates issued by the organization are not very authoritative at present, they at least give people a choice. I believe that free certificates will be recognized by the public in the near future...