On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:02:40PM -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:48:57 -0400, guy wrote
If what you say is true....Cool! And free!
I must take a look and see.
The problem with cacert and the like is they aren't trusted by default by web
browsers, like Verisign is. From the standpoint of a typical web user, that
means a cecert-signed certificate is no better than a self-signed certificate.
This doesn't matter in every application, but it is something to think about.
This isn't meant to be a pro- or con-free-cert post, but I wanted to
point out that it is possible to augment the list of CA's trusted by
most SSL apps, including most web browsers.
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