Re: [OT] Free Certificate Authority

[Calum Morrell <calum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Bond wrote:

> Well its not as OT as it sounds as it could be useful to validate your
> login remotely in a HA environment.
>
> Cut and paste from slashdot:
> "Well, the Aussies have invaded Boston but at least they're not
> throwing tea into the harbor. AU-based nonprofit CAcert Inc has spent
> the last few days at USENIX '04 registering new users by the
> truckload. They bill themselves as a 'Community-Based CA.' Could this
> be the begining of a true 'open' certificate authority? See the
> O'Reilly story and press release."
>
> http://www.cacert.org/
>
> I highly suggest people signup for it, the more people that use it the
> greater chance that the root certificate is incorporated into
> mainstream browsers.  There's been startup companies before that have
> tried to do this but for profit, this is the first site that looks
> really promising.
>
> The Email certificate can be used for client certificates for VPN
> links, logging in on a webpage, etc, the list is endless.

And for those of you around central Scotland, I've been one of the
assurers for quite some time now :)

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Calum Morrell
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