There are numerous vendors offering a variety of SSL certificates. Certificates can range considerably in price—from as much as $1,495 to free—depending upon the way you plan to use the certificate, and the services and support the vendor offers. Let’s take a look at a few of the options. Certificates start at a minimum of 40-bit encryption. These certificates are useful for securing Extranets, Intranets and Web sites through which eCommerce is not being transacted. They also include 128-bit encryption, the de facto standard for two-way encrypted transactions between users and a Web server.