Re: Free SSL Certification Authority

["Matt Shields-5" <user=70@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 30, 2007 12:58 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't this a bad idea? 
> 
> *Anyone* can create their own certificate for their own website based on 
> their own created "authority," the only difference is that user's will be 
> asked if they trust the authority. 
> 
> The free SSL certificate doesn't seem to do any sort of checking to verify 
> that the SSL site has had any sort of verification. What's worse is that 
> if the authority certificate is part of Mozilla Firefox and Safari, then 
> they are insecure. 
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Fred <[hidden email]> 
> > Subject: Free SSL Certification Authority 
> > To: Boston Linux Usergroup <[hidden email]> 
> > Message-ID: <1199017536.13633.4.camel@jupiter> 
> > Content-Type: text/plain 
> > 
> > For those interested in certificates, check this out: 
> > 
> > http://cert.startcom.org/
> > 
> > I have not tried them myself yet, but will soon. Supposedly their 
> > certificates will work in most up-to-date browsers and the like, but I 
> > have not verified this. 
> > 
> > -Fred 
> 
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