It's easy. Windows Server and linux come with it available. If you're just using it for yourself and one other person, thats fine. The only reason you would want one from Thawte or similar is because of credit card transactions over the web or outside clients/trusted others to be able to authenticate to your site.
I have a cert. server setup on an internal page here so we can use digital signature to sign documents and whatnot. This is only used on our intranet server. The certs. I have from Verisign are for our border web servers.
It's not hard to install cert server and run it at all. The other person is going to have to make him a certificate on the cert server as well and you both accept each other's certificate.
Also would tell you that SSL Certs. from Thawte and Verisign aren't cheap. I think 128-bit certs. are like $150 / yr.
From Thawte's website:
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SSL123 Certificates
Domain validated SSL certificates capable of 128-bit encryption and issued within minutes
2-year $ 259.00
1-year $ 149.00
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