I suspect this is going to be one of the big milestone days in the history of the Internet.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced that they’re collaborating with Cisco, Akamai, Mozilla and several other organizations to create a non-profit organization who’s purpose is to make SSL free and easy to implement.
Their goal is to create a completely encrypted Web and the net result is that starting next year, SSL will be free.
WordFence has a done a good article on this which is available here.