SSL cert

Marcus Wolschon Marcus at Wolschon.biz
Thu Oct 16 15:57:03 EDT 2008


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Eric Anopolsky schrieb:
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:35 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> "Marcus Wolschon" <Marcus at Wolschon.biz> writes:
>>
>>> In that case. Use at least cacert. https://www.cacert.org Yes,
>>> it's free. (As in freedom and as in free beer.)
>> Heh!  I go to this site and Firefox tells me that the certificate
>>  is not signed by a trusted authority!!!    That's no better than
>>  the status quo.
>
> This is exactly what I don't like about certificates. Despite the
> fact that a hierarchical model lets people get and use signed
> certificates much more easily than a web of trust model would,
> there is so much potential for this kind of thing to happen.
>
> Anyway, a quick google turns up this site:
> https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp
>
> Might be just what you need.

That is interesting.
I'm not sure how they want to test and certify much
more then plain control over the domain and secured
services (usually only http).

Can you keep me informed how they are proceeding?
Thanks.

Marcus
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