There are plenty of trials out there (like Comodo's 90-day trial), but if you want to SSLize your website (yup, that word exists in my dictionary) for nothing at all, go to StartSSL.
It is NOT like self-signing a certificate, which will give you that annoying message saying that your site cannot be trusted, but it will give you a legitimate certificate confirming that you have been email- or domain-verified. Which is just enough to get that SSL-encrypted data flow, with just enough validation to avoid tickling your clients' browsers.
Yes, StartSSL's website could definitely be pimped-up, and it could provide with a nice-looking Verisign-like logo, but heck, if you don't have $400US to dish out, then it's the way to go. The process isn't that painful, you may need to refresh your browser once in a while to get through key creation, but it does create the CSR for you and it also provides with (slightly outdated) instructions to configure your web server.
Now who's going to provide us with that silly EV green bar for free? :p
thanks for the link i have been looking to get ssl certificates for some of my forum logins. We are starting to ask for donations for hosting costs and we need SSL for the donations page. This will really be helpful so cheers for this.
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