On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 14:15 -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:

> Does anyone have a legitimate reason to trust any particular Certificate
> Authority? 

The trust comes with knowing the procedures a CA uses to verify the
particulars of the people asking (or indeed paying) them to sign
certificates. The point of signing certificates is to generate a web of
trust, you trust that X is who they say they are bcause Y(whom you
trust) says they are.

-- 
Nikolai Lusan <nikol...@_lusan_._id_._au>


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