Obtaining a certificate
The default method to obtain a digital certificate for your organization, start-up, or website is to buy the service of verifying your identity and issuing a certificate from a certificate authority provider. As we mentioned earlier, there are multiple certificate authority providers. A list of the most popular providers can be found in Wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority#Providers
There are also certificate authorities who provide the service for free. For example, in 2016, the Mozilla Foundation along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of Michigan collaborated to found a certificate authority called Let's Encrypt, which can be found at: https://letsencrypt.org/ ...
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