[jdev] CAs (was: s2s doubts)
Hal Rottenberg
halr9000 at gmail.com
Wed May 18 21:59:09 CDT 2005
> I've been getting more heavily involved with CAcert.org, and the number
> Having a cert from a commercial CA proves that you once possessed a few
> hundred dollars and now that money is in the bank account of the CA.
> Having a cert from CAcert proves that you met with some assurers (or
> We can debate which of these approaches is superior, but I rather like
> the CAcert approach because it is based on something more significant
Peter, what about the not-insignificant issue that CAcert is not a
default trusted root in Windows? I just tried to find a page that
listed every CA that Microsoft "trusts", but for the life of me can't
find it. (Justin, do you have that URL?) CAcert needs to sign up for
that program. Otherwise you are damning Aunt Tillie to installing
root certificates or worse, prompting them to accept untrusted
certificates.
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