On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:59:09PM -0400, Hal Rottenberg wrote: > > I've been getting more heavily involved with CAcert.org, and the number > > > Having a cert from a commercial CA proves that you once possessed a few > > hundred dollars and now that money is in the bank account of the CA. > > > Having a cert from CAcert proves that you met with some assurers (or > > > We can debate which of these approaches is superior, but I rather like > > the CAcert approach because it is based on something more significant > > Peter, what about the not-insignificant issue that CAcert is not a > default trusted root in Windows? I just tried to find a page that > listed every CA that Microsoft "trusts", but for the life of me can't > find it. (Justin, do you have that URL?) CAcert needs to sign up for > that program. Otherwise you are damning Aunt Tillie to installing > root certificates or worse, prompting them to accept untrusted > certificates.
The first step for the CAcert folks is to get included in the trusted root CAs for Mozilla/Firefox, which seems to be enough of an effort for right now. AFAIK, CAcert is also working to get included in various Linux distributions. I think getting included in Windows will take a long time and perhaps a lot of money. /psa _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list jdev@jabber.org http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
