Self-Signed Certificates - SSL and TLS

About self-signed certificates and where to get your own site or service SSL/TLS certificate.

Some of our products and services use or need certificates to offer secure connections. Where a certificate is needed, our software will automatically create a self-signed certificate to ensure connections are encrypted in transit.

A self-signed certificate provides encryption but is not designed for use on the Internet.

We recommend you obtain your own certificates for use with our software and services. Using your own certificate puts you in control and allows you to verify the connection is yours and secured as you see fit.

Certificate Providers

Below are a few certificate providers. These organisations can supply a certificate suitable for use with our software and services:

We do not endorse or have affiliation with any certificate authority or provider. In an ideal world, we would have a better solution than to deal with certificate authorities but, for now at least, they are a practical answer to a difficult problem.