If you look in the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf you will see the names of all the Cert Authorities which your browser will recognise. Adding a certificate yourself is not exactly mind-boggling science.
imho, this whole CA lark is just that. A lark to wrought money out of the ignorant and innocent. The only certificates you should trust are those issued by the people with whom you have a relationship of trust. Not for a moment a bunch of American Corporates which have poncy names and have made giga-pots of money! I really do not know any of them, so why should I trust them for even a moment to say that some A. N. Other is trustworthy? Honest, I'd trust the immediate parent poster orders of magnitude more than a bunch of Yanks, totally unknown to me, who's sole qualification seems to be that they have garnered Giga-Dollars out of the rest of the world. Exactly how does that equate with being trustworthy? You see, I have at least met and vagely know the said Volker Kuhlmann, and although it's probably not much to do with being a CA he's got a great sense of humour. On 9/25/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 25 Sep 2007 16:28:42 NZST +1200, Brenda Wallace wrote: > > > > Their website suffers from a common problem: it seems to have a lot of > > > content, but doesn't tell me in 2 sentences what it is all about and > > > what it does for me. Perhaps you could summarize? I note their site cert > > > isn't recognised by my browser, I can make the same sort of cert for the > > > same price (i.e. $00.00) any time myself. > > > > Which browser are you using? i thought only opera and that windows > > browser were missing CaCert outta the box. > > konqueror, on an up-to-date latest release suse 10.2 system. > > I am not sure whether it is a good idea to include CAcert by default in > browsers. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
