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>
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net> wrote:
> 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).
Ah ha! I'm a heavy Debian user and don't really live outside of it.
I do know I used Firefox on Windows one time and the cert wasn't
trusted. I had assumed it may have been an old version of Firefox to
blame. Thank you for the correction.
> 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
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