Massimiliano Pala wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
[..]
> > If you set up a CA for an organisation using OpenCA, is there any way to
> > have its root certificate signed by one of the CAs who are hard-coded
> [..]
> > system, so you are paying them for each cert you issue.  This is not
> > what I had in mind, I had in mind that you just pay them *once* to
> > certify yourself as a CA, and then you issue your own certificates from
> > there.
> 
> This point has been asked some time ago. Indeed the only solution for this
> is to pay directly the Browser's authors, i.e. Netscape or others...
> 
> Anyway this will cost MUCH... per year, I really have no idea if it will
> be 10.000 $ or more... but I guest not less...

Um I hate to disagree especially when I was the person asking the
question :-) but I've done some more research and also spoken with
Thawte.  They say it *is* possible.  See:

http://www.thawte.com/certs/chained/test.html
http://www.thawte.com/certs/chained/

Would that be right?  Does anyone want to go through their testing
procedure to get the OpenCA system certified?  I would offer, but I
haven't even got it set up myself yet. :-)

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