SSL certificates comparison charts

TBS Internet has been providing SSL certificates since 1996 and currently represents over 40% of the French market. Thanks to our experience, we run a multi-authority platform in order to offer you the broadest possible choice and the best prices. Discover our job: broker!

We are strategic partners of Symantec, Thawte, Comodo, GeoTrust, chamberSign, GlobalSign, Certigna and we also market or distributor brand TBS X509. Test us for the price, you will stay for the service!

All our server certificates are issued by WebTrust certification authorities and are fully validated (triple authentication). We provide sales services and support in both French and English.

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Standard server certificates

			SAN option		SAN option		SAN option
Name	X509 TBS Ecommerce	Comodo SSL	Thawte Standard	GeoTrust True BusinessID	Certigna SSL	GlobalSign Org.SSL	Symantec Secure Site
	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy
Price (1 year)	£50	£62	£128 £99	£116	£129	£179	£329
Browsers recognition	98.5%	98.5%	99.8%	94%	92.5%	99.5%	99.6%
Web logo included
Installable on how many machines?	1	UNLIMITED	1	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	1
Price of additional machine licence	purchase another certificate	-	£77	-	-	-	£326
Number of included SANs / sub-domains	-	-	-	-	4 (13) In addition to the main CN	-	-
Price of additional SAN / sub-domain	-	-	£64 (10) within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information.	-	£46 (12) From the 5th additional sub-domain	-	£279 (7) within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information.
Compliant w/ Microsoft UCC standard	-	-		-	-	-
Certificates lifetime (year)	1 to 3	1 to 4	1 to 4	1 to 4	1 to 3	1 to 5	1 to 4
with max lifetime (8) Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product	£42/yr	£45/yr	£81/yr	£95/yr	£94/yr	£144/yr	£268/yr
Anti-malware  scan	-	-	-	-	-	-
Seal-In-Search (6) Trust seal displayed in the browsers' search results, next to the website link for users of Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 or AVG.	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cipherment	up to 256-bit (1) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.6.0+.	up to 256-bit (2) guarantee applicable for W IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.51+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2+.	up to 256-bit (3) guarantee applicable IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.3.0_02+.	up to 256-bit (5) garantee applicable for IE 7+, Netscape 8+, Mozilla 1.5+, Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari 1.2+, Chrome, J2RE 1.5+.	up to 256-bit	up to 256-bit (2) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.51+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_06+.	up to 256-bit (4) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.79+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_06+. Not suitable for all mobiles.
Standards	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	ETSI TS 102 042	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained
Free reissue	Lifetime	Lifetime	Lifetime (9) Excepted particular cases regarding additional SANs. See our FAQ.	Lifetime	During the 3 months following the issuance	Lifetime	Lifetime (9) Excepted particular cases regarding additional SANs. See our FAQ.
Money back guarantee	no	no	30 days	30 days	no	30 days	30 days
Average delivery time (11) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.	3 business days	2 business days	2 business days	5 business days	5 business days	4 business days	2 business days
Other	Secure with and without www.
Data Sheet
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(1): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.6.0+. (2): guarantee applicable for W IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.51+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2+. (3): guarantee applicable IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.3.0_02+. (4): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.79+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_06+. Not suitable for all mobiles. (5): garantee applicable for IE 7+, Netscape 8+, Mozilla 1.5+, Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari 1.2+, Chrome, J2RE 1.5+ (6): Trust seal displayed in the browsers' search results, next to the website link for users of Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 or AVG. (7): within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information. (8): Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product (9): Excepted particular cases regarding additional SANs. See our FAQ. (10): within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information. (11): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier. (12): From the 5th additional sub-domain (13): In addition to the main CN

EV server certificates - Extended Validation

EV certificates are nowadays the must-have products to fight phishing. They activate the green bar in IE7 and IE8, the green tab in Firefox 3, and the security indicators in Safari, Google Chrome, iphone, etc.

	SAN option			SAN option	SAN option
Name	Thawte SSL EV	Comodo EV	GeoTrust True Business ID w/ EV	GlobalSign ExtendedSSL	Symantec Secure Site EV
	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy
Price (1 year)	£339 £327	£311	£348	£539	£769
Green bar activation
Old browser recognition	98.5%	99.8%	99.5%	99.5%	99.6%
Web logo included
Installable on how many machines?	1	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	1
Price of additional machine license	£278	-	-	-	£725
Price of additional SAN	£286 (10) within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information.	-	-	£122	£754 (7) within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information.
Compliant w/ Microsoft UCC standard		-	-
Certificates lifetime (year)	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
with max lifetime (8) Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product	£280/yr	£261/yr	£290/yr	£472/yr	£673/yr
Anti-malware  scan	-	-	-	-
Vulnerability assessment (6) Analyze of your site, web applications, server software and network ports to detect security vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers to infiltrate your systems.	-	-	-	-
Seal-In-Search (5) Trust seal displayed in the browsers' search results, next to the website link for users of Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 or AVG.	-	-	-	-
Cipherment	up to 256-bit (2) guarantee applicable for IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.3.0_02+.	up to 256-bit (1) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.5.0_08+. Not suitable for all mobiles.	up to 256-bit (4) garantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.51+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_02+.	up to 256-bit (2) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.51+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_06+.	up to 256-bit (3) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.6+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_03+.
Standards	EV, X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	EV, X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	EV, X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	EV, X509v3, SSLv3, TLS,chained	EV, X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained
Free reissue	Lifetime (9) Excepted particular cases regarding additional SANs. See our FAQ.	Lifetime	Lifetime	Lifetime	Lifetime (9) Excepted particular cases regarding additional SANs. See our FAQ.
Money back guarantee	30 days	30 days	30 days	30 days	30 days
Average delivery time (11) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.	7 business days	4 business days	10 business days	6 business days	7 business days
Other		Secures with and without www.		Additional SANs can be purchased
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(1): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.5.0_08+. Not suitable for all mobiles. (2): guarantee applicable for IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.3.0_02+. (3): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.6+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_03+. (4): garantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.51+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_02+. (5): Trust seal displayed in the browsers' search results, next to the website link for users of Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 or AVG. (6): Analyze of your site, web applications, server software and network ports to detect security vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers to infiltrate your systems. (7): within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information. (8): Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product (9): Excepted particular cases regarding additional SANs. See our FAQ. (10): within the limit of 24 additional SANs per certificate. Get further information. (11): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.

SHA256 & RGS SSL certificates

SHA256 certificates fulfill the same roles than their standard's counterparts. The only difference being that they are signed with SHA256, a much stronger hash algorithm. Warning though, there are limitations with servers and browsers.

Name	X509 SHA256 TBS	Certigna SSL RGS*	Comodo EV SHA256	X509 Omnidomaine Sha256 TBS	X509 MultiSites SHA256 TBS
	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy
Number of sites / FQDN / SAN included	-	5	-	-	12
Price (1 year)	£82	£152	£384	£408	£663
Browsers recognition	95.5%	92.2%	95.5%	95.5%	95.5%
Web logo included
Installable on how many machines?	1	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	1	1
Price of additional machine license	buy an other certificate	-	-	37 € (3) From the 5th sub-domain	buy an other certificate
Price (per additional site/SAN)	-	£57	-	-	£56
Certificate lifetime (year)	1 to 3	1 to 3	1 or 2	1 to 3	1 to 3
avec la durée max (1) Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product	£68/yr	£115/yr	£336/yr	£340/yr	£554/yr
Encipherment	up-to 256-bit	up-to 256-bit	up-to 256-bit	up-to 256-bit	up-to 256-bit
Standards		ETSI TS 102 042, RGS
Free reissue	lifetime	during the 3 months following the issuance	lifetime	lifetime	lifetime
Money back guarantee	-	-	30 days	-	30 days
Délai moyen d'obtention (2) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.	3 business days - ◷ 4H avec l'Option Express !	5 business days	4 business days	3 business days - ◷ 4H avec l'Option Express !	3 business days
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(1): Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product (2): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier. (3): From the 5th sub-domain

Wildcard server certificateS

Wildcard certificates enable you to secure multiple websites which share the same suffix: *.domain.com

Please note that you can only secure one level of sub-domains and that Wildcard certificates have some technical limitations.

Name	Thawte Wildcard	X509 Omnidomain TBS	Comodo WildSSL	GlobalSign OV Wildcard	Geotrust True BusinessID Wildcard	Symantec Secure Site Wildcard
	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy
Price (1 year)	£422 £309	£310	£300	£532	£598	£2316
Browsers recognition	99.8%	98.5%	98.5%	99.5%	94%	99.6%
Web logo included
Installable on how many machines?	1	1	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	1
Price of add machine license	£253	£17	-	-	-	£2088
Certificates lifetime (year)	1 or 2	1 to 3	1 to 4	1 to 5	1 to 4	1 to 3
w/ max lifetime (5) Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product	£271/yr	£259/yr	£293/yr	£426/yr	£486/yr	£1919/yr
Cipherment	up to 256-bit (3) guarantee applicable for IE 4.0+ (except for Windows 95 & 98), Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.3.0_02+, Windows mobile 6+.	up to 256-bit (1) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.6.0+.	up to 256-bit (2) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.5+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.1+, Windows Mobile 6+.	up to 256-bit	up to 256-bit (4) garantee applicable for IE 7+, Netscape 8+, Mozilla 1.5+, Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari 1.2+, Chrome, J2RE 1.5+.	up to 256-bit (6) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.79+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_06+. Not suitable for all mobiles.
Standards	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained
Free reissue	Lifetime	Lifetime	Lifetime	Lifetime	Lifetime	Lifetime
Money back guarantee	30 days	-	-	30 days	30 days	30 days
Average delivery time (7) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.	2 business days	3 business days	2 business days	4 business days	5 business days	2 business days
Other		Secure with the sub-domain and without (just domain.com)
Data Sheet
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(1): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.6.0+. (2): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.5+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.1+, Windows Mobile 6+. (3): guarantee applicable for IE 4.0+ (except for Windows 95 & 98), Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.3.0_02+, Windows mobile 6+. (4): garantee applicable for IE 7+, Netscape 8+, Mozilla 1.5+, Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari 1.2+, Chrome, J2RE 1.5+ (5): Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product (6): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.79+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, Chrome, J2RE 1.4.2_06+. Not suitable for all mobiles. (7): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.

MULTIPLE CN (SAN) SERVER CERTIFICATES

This type of certificate (also called Subject Alternative Name or SAN) enables to secure not only one website but a large number of sites (a list of sites) hosted on a shared infrastructure (server with multiple names, reverse proxy). Ideal to secure multiple brands of a corporation.

Name	Comodo UCC	GlobalSign UCC	Comodo EV Multi-sites	TBS X509 Multiple Sites
	buy	buy	buy	buy
Number of sites / FQDN / SAN included	4	3+3	3	12
Compliant w/ Microsoft UCC standard			-	-
Price (1 year)	£189	£386	£496	£588
Price (per additional site/SAN)	£47	£66	£168	£49
Browsers recognition	98.5%	99.5%	98.1%	98.1%
Web logo included	-		-	-
Installable on how many machines?	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	1
Price of additional machine license	-	-	-	purchase another certificate
Certificate lifetime (year)	1 to 3	1 to 5	1 or 2	1 to 3
with max lifetime (5) Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product	£158/yr	£309/yr	£441/yr	£421/yr
Encipherment	up to 256-bit (2) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Suitable for Windows Mobile 5+.	up to 256-bit (4) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Suitable for Windows Mobile 5+.	up to 256-bit (3) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Not Suitable for all mobiles.	up to 256-bit (1) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers.
Public names in the SANs	no limitation	no limitation	no limitation	no limitation
Internal names in the SANs	no limitation	no limitation	no limitation	no limitation
IPs in the SANs	no limitation	no limitation	none	no limitation
Standards	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, Exchange2007, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, Exchange2007, chained	EV, X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained	X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained
Free reissue	Lifetime, including SAN changes	Lifetime, including SAN changes	Lifetime, including SAN changes	Lifetime, including SAN changes
Money back guarantee	30 days	30 days	30 days	30 days
Average delivery time (6) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.	3 business days	4 business days	6 business days	3 business days
Other	Available with 12 SANs. Tailored for Exchange 2007	prefixes mail. owa. autodiscover. included for free	NEW EV PRODUCT!	Available with 40 and 100 SANs through a TBS-certificats account
Data Sheet
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(1): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers. (2): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Suitable for Windows Mobile 5+. (3): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Not Suitable for all mobiles. (4): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Chrome, and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Suitable for Windows Mobile 5+. (5): Price per year (and rounded up to the nearest pound) if you choose the maximum lifetime of the product (6): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.

CERTIFICATES COMPLIANT W/ MICROSOFT UCC STANDARD

The following certificates are recommanded by Microsoft to secure its Exchange and Communication Server Environments product. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929395.

Brand	COMODO	GLOBALSIGN	THAWTE	SYMANTEC
Products	UCC	UCC	Standard SGC EV	Secure Site Secure Site EV Secure Site Pro Secure Site Pro EV
Number of sites / FQDN / SAN included	4	3+3	-	-
Reachable number of SANs	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	24	24
Free reissue	Lifetime, including SAN changes	Lifetime, including SAN changes	soumis à conditions	soumis à conditions
Installable on how many machines?	UNLIMITED	UNLIMITED	1	1
Logo Web included	-

Trust seals - Without SSL certificate

Our summary table below assembles commercial and technical criteria of the Trust Seals.

Name	Symantec Safe Site	Comodo HackerProof
Logo
	buy	buy
Price (1 year)	£199	£812
anti-malware  Scan
Lifetime	1 to 3	1 or 2
PCI compliance scanning	-
Seal-in-Search (1) Trust seal displayed in the browsers' search results, next to the website link for users of Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 or AVG.		-
Authentication		-
Display of the logo on your website important pages
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(1): Trust seal displayed in the browsers' search results, next to the website link for users of Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 or AVG.

Developers (code-signing) certificates

Nom	Thawte Developer	Symantec Code Signing
	buy	buy
Price (1 year)	£138	£401
Browsers recognition	99.2% (1) guarantee applicable for IE 5.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino and Safari browsers; JRE 1.3.0_02+, Office XP, Mac OS X.	97% (2) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.79+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari; J2RE 1.4.2_06+, Office XP, Mac PS X.
Nb of signables components	unlimited	unlimited
Certificates lifetime (year)	1 or 2	1 to 3
Standards	X509v3, Microsoft Authenticode, JDK (java), Adobe AIR, Netscape Code Signing	X509v3, Microsoft Authenticode, JDK (java), Microsoft driver
Free reissue	Lifetime	Lifetime
Average delivery time (3) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.	3/4 business days	3 business days
Data Sheet
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(1): guarantee applicable for IE 5.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino and Safari browsers; JRE 1.3.0_02+, Office XP, Mac OS X. (2): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.79+, Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey / Camino, Safari; J2RE 1.4.2_06+, Office XP, Mac PS X. (3): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.

Client certificates

PRODUCT INFORMATION: X509 Email novice TBS certificates are unavailable for an undetermined period. Thanks for your understanding.

Name	X509 Email Novice TBS	X509 Sign & Login TBS	X509 Email Particulier TBS	X509 Email Pro TBS	GlobalSign PDF Signing for individual Authors	GlobalSign PDF Signing for dept./org. PDFs
	UNAVAILABLE	buy	buy	buy	buy	buy
Price (1 year)		£27	£29	£43	£279	£419
Class (validation level)		2 (organization validated)	2 (ID validated)	2+ (ID and organization validated)	2 (organization validated)	2 (organization validated)
Web and Email recognition		97% (1) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey and Safari.	97% (2) guarantee applicable for Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5.5+, Entourage, Mail MacOS X 10.3+, Thunderbird, Netscape 4.77+ and Mozilla/SeaMonkey.	97% (2) guarantee applicable for Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5.5+, Entourage, Mail MacOS X 10.3+, Thunderbird, Netscape 4.77+ and Mozilla/SeaMonkey.
Usable for strong authentification?		√	√	√	-	-
Usable for digital signature?		√	√	√	√	√
Usable to sign and encipher email?		-	√	√	-	-
Signed-PDF recognized by default in Acrobat Reader ?		no, configure it	no, configure it	no, configure it	√	√
Usable to sign PDF (software required)?		√	√	√	√	√
Number of signature		Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	500	2000
Free reissue		-	-	-	Lifetime	Lifetime
Timestamp		√ (4) To be configured. See our FAQ	√ (4) To be configured. See our FAQ	√ (4) To be configured. See our FAQ	√	√
Medium type		software	software	software	USB token	USB token
Certificates lifetime (year)		1 to 5	1 to 3	1 to 5	1 to 3	1 to 5
Average delivery time (5) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.		2/3 business days	2/3 business days	2/3 business days	7 business days	7 business days
Standards		X509v3, chained	X509v3, S/MIME, chained	X509v3, S/MIME, chained
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All certs come with 40-bit warranty, up to 256-bit.
(1): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey and Safari. (2): guarantee applicable for Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5.5+, Entourage, Mail MacOS X 10.3+, Thunderbird, Netscape 4.77+ and Mozilla/SeaMonkey. (3): browsers do not have the root, manual importation required. (4): To be configured. See our FAQ (5): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.

SHA256 client certificates

	X509 Sign & Login SHA256 TBS	X509 Email Pro SHA256 TBS
	buy	buy
Price (1 year)	£33	£47
Class (validation level)	2 (organization validated)	2+ (ID and organization validated)
Web and Email recognition	97% (1) guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey and Safari.	97% (2) guarantee applicable for Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5.5+, Entourage, Mail MacOS X 10.3+, Thunderbird, Netscape 4.77+ and Mozilla/SeaMonkey.
Usable for strong authentification?	√	√
Usable for digital signature?	√	√
Usable to sign and encipher email?	-	√
Signed-PDF recognized by default in Acrobat Reader ?	no, configure it	no, configure it
Usable to sign PDF (software required)?	√	√
Number of signature	Unlimited	Unlimited
Free reissue	-	-
Timestamp	√ (3) To be configured. See our FAQ	√ (3) To be configured. See our FAQ
Medium type	software	software
Certificates lifetime (year)	1 to 5	1 to 5
Average delivery time (4) Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.	2/3 business days	2/3 business days
Standards	X509v3, chained	X509v3, S/MIME, chained
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(1): guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey and Safari. (2): guarantee applicable for Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5.5+, Entourage, Mail MacOS X 10.3+, Thunderbird, Netscape 4.77+ and Mozilla/SeaMonkey. (3): To be configured. See our FAQ (4): Indicative delivery times that can be impacted by occasional disruptions. Consult the up-to-date situation of each supplier.

PKI offer

Name	TBS-certificate Account	TBS PKI SME	TBS PKI chained	TBS PKI Enterprise
Recommended from (number of certificates)	1	5	3000	4000
Yearly fixed expenses	free	free	£30000	£35000
Single certificate purchasing;	√	-	-	-
Bulk certificate purchasing	√	yes, from 200€	no, illimited users	√
Infrastructure expenses	0, outsourced	0, outsourced	You setup all the infrastructure (hardware, software, datacenter)	Interfacing your systems with our platform to be implemented (API provided)
Server certificate issuance	√	√	-	√
User certificate issuance	√	√	√	yes (flat fee possible)
Code-signing certificate issuance	√	-	-	-
Certificate issuer	brand dependant: Verisign, Thawte, TBS X509, Comodo	TBS X509 CA	Your own authority	Your own authority
Root certificate	brand dependant	UTN / AddTrust	UTN / AddTrust	UTN / AddTrust
Average delivery time	brand dependant	1 hour	Depends on your infrastructure	10 minutes
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TBS INTERNET - Certificates services
UK office
Tel: +44 330 684 0000 (9h-17h30 monday-friday)
Fax: +44 03306 840 048 (or +1-760-284-6216)
or Email : certs@tbs-internet.com