Peter, They currently have a few grants and are going through the lengthy process of getting audited for inclusion in the various browsers. Its a fairly expensive and extensive process.
Ilan On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > That sucks, At one time there was either big talk about putting them in or > they were actually added, but either way they aren't in the browser. I use > CAcert for convenience when needing certs, but since you can't really use > them for customer facing apps you might as well just generate the cert > yourself. > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> it's not present either in firefox or IE. >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > CAcert is in Firefox, but unless Microsoft did a big update they aren't >> > going to be in IE, which still means you need to pay for a cert if it is >> > a >> > customer facing site. Last couple times I tried to login to my CAcert >> > account I was presented with an invalid cert notice so I don't even know >> > if >> > it is valid in Firefox anymore. There used to be benefits to paying for >> > Verisign, like browser compatibility, but now the main one is just the >> > trust >> > circle. Verisign does more than most companies to verify the identity >> > and >> > background of the company/individual requesting the cert, unless other >> > companies are stepping it up. I would probably pay the extra to be in >> > the >> > circle if I was a profitable business. >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Dante Lanznaster wrote: >> >> > Please note that there are quite a few CA's out there that issue >> >> > "free >> >> > certs" but these are free as in beer, and what they provide is a >> >> > 1-month eval certificate. Of course you can just renew it, but it's a >> >> > PITA procedure to do every month. >> >> >> >> Why not just get a certified RHCE from India to do that for $3/hr? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Peter Manis >> > (678) 269-7979 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > -- > Peter Manis > (678) 269-7979 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
