On Apr 5, 5:07 pm, Douglass Clem <[email protected]> wrote: > Are certs from CAcert recognized by all the main browsers (IE6/7/8, FF2/3 > Safari) as being valid certificates?
After installing the root certificate in your browser, e-mail client or any other application I have never had a functional problem. But no vendors that I know of are including them in their products. The assumption is probably that end users would not trust the concept of CACert to vouch for the identity of a company/person/system for public business. Since it's used for systems that will likely only be used by you and maybe the memebers of the social network who signed off on your identity... we gave it a bad nickname, "MySpace for Crypto Geeks". It's good for development systems and systems used by a small technically aware audience like those mentioned in the thread. Because anyone who understood the concept would know who to talk to if there was a problem with a certificate issued from CACert. For instance: I use CACert on a specific mail server I had about 6 people accessing and I installed the root certificate into their mail clients. As long as I keep updating the certificate on the mail server when it expires I don't have to walk them through installing or allowing a self signed certificate every once in a while. It's a little bit of labor saving for me, but not much more. When you're talking about managing several servers with more users, like Jonathan was discussing, the time benefit is probably even greater. John Chapin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
