I remember using a StartSSL certificate. It wasn't linked to an account or anything sane, but instead installed a certificate in the browser which it used in place of login details. I happened to do this on my phone, which did not offer any way to access or export this certificate. When that phone died, my account was lost.<p>I'd warn against using anything from StartSSL, but I don't think anyone is going to in the first place.
Before everyone trashes them, know that for a long time (years before LetsEncrypt) they were the only source for free SSL certs. Their site is a bit wonkey, but they really brought ssl to the masses when verisign etc were charging $100+ per cert.<p>More competition to make free ssl easier and better is welcome in my book.
E-mail I've received from them:<p>Dear StartCom customers,<p>This electronic mail message was created by StartCom's Administration Personnel:<p>StartCom, a leading global Certificate Authority (CA) and provider of trusted identity and authentication services, announces a new service – StartEncrypt today, an automatic SSL certificate issuance and installation software for your web server.<p>StartEncrypt is based the StartAPI system to let you get SSL certificate and install the SSL certificate in your web server for free and automatically, no any coding, just one click to install it in your server.<p>Compare with Let’s Encrypt, StartEncrypt support Windows and Linux server for most popular web server software, and have many incomparable advantages as:<p>(1) Not just get the SSL certificate automatically, but install it automatically;<p>(2) Not just Encrypted, but also identity validated to display EV Green Bar and OV organization name in the certificate;<p>(3) Not just 90 days period certificate, but up to 39 months, more than 1180 days;<p>(4) Not just low assurance DV SSL certificate, but also high assurance OV SSL certificate and green bar EV SSL certificate;<p>(5) Not just for one domain, but up to 120 domains with wildcard support;<p>(6) All OV SSL certificate and EV SSL certificate are free, just make sure your StartSSL account is verified as Class 3 or Class 4 identity.<p>StartEncrypt together with StartSSL to let your website start to https without any pain, to let your website keep green bar that give more confident to your online customer and bring to online revenue to you. Let’s start to encrypt now.<p>Please do not reply to this email. This is an unmonitored email address, and replies to this email cannot be responded to or read.
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I was trying to recover my login certificate, which I think was in a copy of Firefox somewhere. They were happy to send me a verification code to my email, then asked for my private key password for the replacement cert. I, of course, asked 1Password to generate one for me, but because it had symbols in it, I received the dreaded password validation error:<p>> *Password length 10~32 , consist of letters, numbers<p>Et tu, StartSSL?
Their ... 'English' is just atrocious to read.<p><pre><code> Install and https enabled, no any coding, support Windows server and Linux server;
DV SSL certificate that up to 5 domains with one year period;</code></pre>