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Re: EV SSL Certificates, make our own?



* Dusty Wilson <dusty@hey.nu> [2008-04-05 09:11-0400]:
> <offtopic>
> I'm both an existing user and a financial contributor to the
> cacert.org project.  If anyone out there doesn't know about them, give
> them a look!  Free certs are great, but their paid certs are worth
> every penny.  You pay them to verify your identity and in exchange,
> you can make as many certs as you want for a specified time.  Support
> these guys if you can.  Also, AFAIK their certs are trusted in every
> browser but IE.
> </offtopic>

CAcert is great, I'm also a user. However, their certs are *not* trusted
in every browser but IE. They have not completed their 3rd party audit
that would enable them to be included in Firefox/Mozilla products. They
are available in debian in the ca-certificates package, but without that
installed, or if you have a user not running Debian, then you have to
install their root otherwise the user is prompted (and I've heard that
on XP it flat-out refuses to continue).

The following are the latest on the status of inclusion:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215243
http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/InclusionStatus

Micah

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