Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

[Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>]

On 29 March 2014 18:10, Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:

My last renew of a startcom certificate was in February 2014. I guess

you were victim of misunderstanding, or they indeed check what kind of
service a certificate is used for and decide whether to continue to
offer the certificate for this particular service for free or not.

If you look up their policies (there is a pdf file somewhere), they say that the class 1 certificates (the free certificates) are only to be used for non-commercial websites. At quick glance, I couldn't find any definition of what "non-commercial" means.

I wanted to quote the actual text, but instead get "Weekend Maintenance":

"Some of our services are offline and under maintenance at weekends until 7:00 AM GMT. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience and thank you for your understanding."

This basically means they are always offline when I need them the most, at least for my personal servers :-(

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Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>