Peter Gutmann wrote:
Jean-Marc Desperrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
It used to be free with no special requirements in the Microsoft case.

Only during the MSIE 4 free-for-all.

At leats up until MSIE 5.01.

Since then it's still free, but you have
to pass a SAS 70 audit, which typically costs about $0.5M.

And it's very hard for a small player to make enough profit to rentabilize that kind of amount.


That make me think, and I'd like to point it out to MF, that Microsoft had no remorse about removing from the list the CAs that did not comply with the new criterium.
This is a precedent for a clean up of Mozilla's CA list.
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