Sorta OT - Cheap certificate authority?

[Bryan Hepworth]

Thomas Cameron wrote:

> Hey All -
>
> I am setting up a project for a buddy on a shoe-string budget and we
> need a site protected by SSL.  Self-signed won't cut it.  I looked at
> Verisign and to get a basic SSL cert from them is going to cost more
> than the whole hardware budget for the project!
>
> Anyone have any recommendations for a cheap CA?  Is there such a thing?
>
> To put this on-topic, it will be hosted on a Fedora box.  :-)
>   

cacert.org worked a treat for my mail server