Ian Grigg wrote:
2. This policy seems to have arisen alongside or
from a closed meeting of a month or so ago. Duane
(representing a CA of 2000 members) didn't get
invited to the closed meeting of CAs and browser
manufacturers. No minutes, no agenda, no published
results. There is only one word for that - "compromised."
This reply isn't aimed at you Ian, but you happened to mention numbers
that are a little out of date.
In any case I did ask on several occasions before the event if this was
going to be a secret back room deal or open such as the source code only
to be shouted down about breach of confidences, what about the
confidences of the actual browser users that keeps getting touted as the
holy grail.
To date I've seen nothing but contempt for most users with the closed
meeting and no actual minutes or reports on the event and in fact I'm
starting to think using the excuse about protecting users is merely a
convenient line to throw out when it suits rather then actually being
concerned about their welfare on an active basis.
So far to date I still haven't heard from the Mozilla foundation who was
present, general over view of the event, any major decisions made likely
to effect users of Mozilla software, so on an so forth.
Ian as for our numbers, that depends what you want to count...
As of the present moment we have 3,328 users that have appeared in
person to verify their identity.
We have a further 644 that have partially proven their identity, but
aren't considered completely verified in the system.
We have issued 53,175 certificates of which 28,108 are valid.
People have verified 39,284 email addresses and 16,776 domains, and
there are 29,808 valid user accounts, of course this number keeps
growing by the day, up to date figures can be seen on our website:
http://www.cacert.org/stats.php
Any other CAs publishing any similar stats?
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Best regards,
Duane
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I only try to dance better than myself."
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