SSL cert

[Marcus Wolschon]

2008/10/15 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>> Would a trusted certificate be useful for any other purposes, or is it
>> needed only for the list server?
>
> Nope, no other purpose than to get that warning to go away when
> people follow the HTTPS links to the server.  Personally I see nothing
> wrong with self-signed certificates provided you save them forever.
> It's no worse than the security that SSH gives you.
>
> It's certainly not worth it to me to pay $15 just to help than one
> poor soul a year who gets confused by his browser and doesn't know
> to just accept it.  The fact that Firefox is making it harder to
> accept self-signed certs doesn't help. :(


In that case.
Use at least cacert.
https://www.cacert.org
Yes, it's free. (As in freedom and as in free beer.)


Marcus