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?
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