Hello all, As many have pointed out - the URL I included below no longer works. Instead you should just log in, click on "CAcert Web of Trust" and then the WoT form, which has the applicants details filled in. There have been a number of other people who are coming that also can assure people, so we will coordinate a time to do it all at once, please stay tuned for that information. micah Micah Anderson schrieb am Wednesday, den 06. July 2005: > Hi, > > I, and I suppose others who are attending Debconf, am authorized by > CACert (see below for more info) to provide identity verification > assurances of people through CAcert's Assurance Programme. This is not > too different than a GPG key-signing, except the face-to-face identity > verification allows you to build up points which can then be used to > get free SSL Certificates of varying degrees of expiration. I have 150 > points, and am able to allocate 35 points to individuals who perform > this relatively easy verification. If there are others who are also > CAcert assurers, please contact me offlist so we can arrange to make > this more coordinated. > > I will be available to do certifications at Debconf, so if you are > interested, please track me down sometime during the week, and make > sure you have followed these simple directions below. > > 1. Make sure you have a CAcert identity (you probably already have > one, but I will need to know the email address that you used for your > CAcert identity) > 2. Make a copy of your IDs, and print the assurance form > (https://www.cacert.org/docs/CAP.pdf) and fill out > the applicant's portion > 3. Bring your ID and the copies of your ID and the assurance form > > > What is CAcert? > > CAcert is building a Certificate Authority (CA) based on the Web of > Trust principle and tries to get their Root Cert in commonly used > browsers. CAcert is a Non-Profit Certificate Authority; an alternative > to the commercial CAs where you can obtain free digital X.509 > certificates for client (e-mail) and server (ssl,https) applications. > > CAcert works with a trust point system representing your level of > trust in the WoT. The trust point system: > > * 0-49: You are considered not enough 'assured' (not trusted > enough) by the system to be able to have your name (Common Name) on a > certificate. Such a certificate is valid six months only. > * 50-99: You can have your name on your certificate, and it is > valid for two years. You can add extra email addresses on the cert. > You can renew your certificate. And you can obtain as many client > certificates as you want, Free! > * 100-150: You are an Assurer by yourself and can assure others. > You can help to widen the Web of Trust. The more assurances you do the > more experience you have with Assureances and so the more trust points > you can give to an Assurancee (you start with 10 points and can reach > the max of 35 points to give away after a while). With each Assurance > you obtain 2 trust points you add 2 points to your own amount of trust > points.
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