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COMPARATIVE CHART - OUR CERTIFICATES OFFERS

TBS Internet has been providing SSL server certificates since 1996 and currently represents over 40% of the French market. Our experience serves to run a multi-authority platform in order to offer you the broadest possible choice of SSL (https), authenticode, email certificates and PKI.

This site is meant to enable you to choose and compare offers in order to find the one which best suits your needs.

To date we work with:

  •  X509 TBS, our distributor brand

  •  VeriSign, the leading server certificate Certification Authority

  •  Thawte,a brand of the VeriSign group

  •  Comodo, a promissing Certification Authority

  •  ChamberSign, the French CA leader for e-government certificates

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


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SERVER CERTIFICATES WITH 40-BIT WARANTY


Our summary table below assembles commercial and technical criteria. The principal technical criterion is browser recognition; see our comparison page.

Certificates with 40-bit waranty can also operate at 128-bit with browsers natively 128-bit compliant (even at 256-bit with compatible software).

Name X509 Ecommerce TBS
1 year
Comodo AAA SSL
1 year
Thawte Standard
1 year
VeriSign Secure
1 year
Price 72 EUR 99 EUR 149 EUR 405 EUR
Cipherment 40-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty**, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty***, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty****, up to 256-bit
Browsers recognition 96% 98.5% 99.2% 98%
Web logo included TBS X509 TBS X509 Thawte VeriSign
Price of additional hardware licence 72 EUR 99 EUR 99 EUR 405 EUR
Standards X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained X509v3, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLS, non-chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained
Free reissue Lifetime Lifetime Lifetime 30 days
Insurance $2 500 $2 500 0 $100 000
Average delivery time 3 business days 1/2 business days 2/3 business days 2 business days
 
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*: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.6.0+. Not suitable for mobiles.
**: guarantee applicable for W IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.51+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.4.2+.
***: guarantee applicable IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.3.0_02+.
****: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.4.2_03+.

SERVER CERTIFICATES WITH 128-BIT WARANTY


Certificates with 128-bit waranty can also operate at 256-bit with compatible software. They force some 40-bit browsers (see our browser comparison) into 128-bit mode.

Name X509 SGC TBS 1 year Thawte Supercert
1 year
VeriSign Global
1 year
Price 239 EUR 349 EUR 999 EUR
Cipherment 128-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit 128-bit waranty****, up to 256-bit 128-bit waranty****, up to 256-bit
Browser recognition 96% 98% 98%
Web logo included TBS X509 Thawte VeriSign
Price of additional hardware licence 239 EUR 249 EUR 999 EUR
Standards X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained
Free reissue Lifetime Lifetime 30 days
Insurance $10 000 0 $250 000
Average delivery time 3 business days 2/3 business days 2 business days
 
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*: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.6.0+. Not suitable for mobiles.
****: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.4.2_03+.




EV SERVER CERTIFICATES
Name Comodo EV Comodo EV SGC Thawte SSL EV Verisign Secure Site EV Verisign Secure Site Pro EV
Price (1 year) 479 EUR 629 EUR 669 EUR 977 EUR 1349 EUR
Cipherment 40-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit 128-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty**, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty***, up to 256-bit 128-bit waranty***, up to 256-bit
IE7+ recognition (green bar) yes yes yes yes yes
Other browser recognition 97%* 97%* 99.2%** 97.5%*** 97.5%***
Web logo included comodo comodo Thawte VeriSign VeriSign
Standards X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained
Free reissue Lifetime Lifetime Lifetime 30 days 30 days
Insurance $250 000 $250 000 0 $100 000 $250 000
 
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*: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.5.0_08+. Not suitable for mobiles.
**: guarantee applicable IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.3.0_02+.
***: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.4.2_03+.



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WILDCARD SERVER CERTIFICATES


Wildcard certificates enable you to secure multiple websites which share the same suffix: *.domain.com
Our summary table below assembles commercial and technical criteria. The principal technical criterion is browser recognition; see our comparison page.

Name X509 Omnidomaine TBS
1 year
Comodo WildSSL
1 year
Thawte Wildcard
1 year
X509 Omnidomaine SGC TBS
1 year
Price 409 EUR 449 EUR 489 EUR 614 EUR
Cypherment 40-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty**, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty***, up to; 256-bit 128-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit
Browsers recognition 96% 98.5% 99% 96%
Web logo included TBS X509 TBS X509 Thawte TBS X509
Price of additional hardware licence 19 EUR 28 EUR 339 EUR 29 EUR
Standards X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, chained X509v3, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLS, non-chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained
Free reissue Lifetime Lifetime Lifetime Lifetime
Insurance $10 000 $10 000 0 $10 000
Average delivery time 3 business days 1/2 business days 2/3 business days 3 business days
 
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*: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.6.0+. Not suitable for mobiles.
**: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.5+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.4.1+, Windows Mobile 6+.
***: guarantee applicable IE 4.0+ (except for Windows 95 & 98), Netscape 4.0+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino, Safari, J2RE 1.3.0_02+, Windows mobile 6+.


MULTIPLE CN (MULTIPLE SITES) SERVER CERTIFICATES


This type of certificate (also called Subject Alternative Name (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. One certificate per hardware is required.

Name TBS X509 Multiple Sites 1 year Comodo UCC 1 year
Number of sites / FQDN / SAN included 12 5
Price 660 EUR 325 EUR
Cypherment 128-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit 40-bit waranty*, up to 256-bit
Price (per additional site/SAN) 55 EUR 65 EUR
Browsers recognition 90%* 91%**
Web logo included no no
Standards X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, SGC, chained X509v3, SSLv3, TLS, Exchange2007, chained
Free reissue Lifetime Lifetime
Insurance 0 0
Average delivery time 3 business days 2/3 business days
Other Available with 40 and 100 FQDN through a TBS-certificats account Available with 12 FQDN. Tailored for Exchange 2007
 
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* : guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Not suitable for mobiles.

* : guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+ Windows, Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey/Camino and Safari 1.2+ browsers. Suitable for Windows Mobile 6.





DEVELOPERS (CODE-SIGNING) CERTIFICATES
Nom Thawte Developer 1 year
Price 159 EUR
Browsers recognition 99.2%*
Nb of signables components illimited
Standards X509v3, Microsoft Authenticode, Netscape Code Signing, JDK, chained
Free reissue Lifetime
Insurance 0
Average delivery time 3/4 business days
 
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*: 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.




USER CERTIFICATES
Name X509 Email Novice TBS X509 Email Particulier TBS X509 Sign & Login TBS X509 Email Professionnel TBS ChamberSign Fiducio GeoTrust My Credential for Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
Price per certificate and per year free 33 EUR 31 EUR 49 EUR 80 EUR 399 EUR
Class (validation level) 1 (ID not validated) 2 (ID validated) 2 (organization validated) 2+ (ID and organization validated) 3 (ID face-to-face validated and organisation validated) 2+ (ID and organization validated)
Web and Email recognition 97%** 97%** 97%* 97%** not recognised by default*** not recognised by default***
Usable for strong authentification? no yes yes yes yes yes
Usable for digital signature? yes yes yes yes yes, including French TeleTVA, Tenders, e-procedures yes
Usable to sign and encipher email? yes yes no yes yes no
Usable to sign PDF (native recognition)? no no no no no yes
Usable to sign PDF (with plugin) yes yes yes yes yes yes
Certificates lifetime (year) 1 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 1, 2 1
Standards X509v3, S/MIME, chained X509v3, S/MIME, chained X509v3, chained X509v3, S/MIME, chained X509v3, S/MIME, no-chained, PRISv1 X509v3, chained
 
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All certs come with 40-bit waranty, up to 256-bit. No free reissue
*: guarantee applicable for IE 5.01+, Netscape 4.77+, Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey and Safari.
**: guarantee applicable for Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5.5+, Entourage, Mail MacOS X 10.3+, Thunderbird, Netscape 4.77+ and Mozilla/SeaMonkey.
***: rowsers do not have the root, manual importation required.




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 35000 EUR 40000 EUR
Single certificate purchasing; yes no no no
Bulk certificate purchasing yes yes, from 200 EUR no, illimited users yes
Infrastructure expenses 0, outsourced 0, outsourced You setup all the infrastructure (hardware, software, datacenter)/td> Interfacing your systems with our platform to be implemented (API provided)
Server certificate issuance yes yes no yes
Client certificate issuance yes yes yes yes (flat fee possible)
Code-signing certificate issuance yes no no no
Certificate issuer brand dependant: Verisign, Thawte, TBS X509, Comodo TBS X509 CA Your own authority Your own authority
Root certificate suivant gamme UTN / AddTrust UTN / AddTrust UTN / AddTrust
Average delivery time brand dependant 1 hour Depends on your infrastructure 10 minutes
 
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CONTACT

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TBS INTERNET - Certificates services
22 rue de Bretagne
14000 CAEN
France

Tel: +33-2-7630-5900 (10h-13h & 14h-18h monday-friday)
Fax: +33-1-7372-4584 (ou +1-760-284-6216)

Email : certs@tbs-internet.com





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