: When do I need a website certificate? Can someone explain me when I need a web site certificate? I will have a web app that will be used for representing live data. Do I need a certificate

@Deb1703797

You need a website certificate when you need to protect your user's data against eavesdropping in transit. To protect against this, people typically use HTTPS instead of HTTP. For HTTPS the server presents a certificate to the client, the client decides whether to trust that the server is who it claims to be by checking that the certificate has been signed by one of the certifying authorities whose signature is known to the client.

Unless you are passing back and forth data that is personal or confidential, you don't need this.

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@Hamm4606531

You need a SSL certificate for a website if you want the connection between the client and server to be encrypted. The server may already supply a "Self-Signed certificate" which technically allows for encrypting the channel, but not showing any proof that the certificate really belongs to the website.

Shopping questions are off-topic, but free providers exist like startssl.com/.

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