Jay W. wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > hi all, > as much as we'd like to encourage developers to utilize > e-gold, in this case e-gold account holders should follow > the passphrase guidelines displayed on the login page: > https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html > specifically: <snip> > also your browser should not present you with any warnings about the > certificate. Jay, A browser may present a warning (pop up windows) when a Certificate Authority's root certificate is not bundled with the other root certificates in the browser. There's nothing particularly trustworthy about Verisign and others relative to other Certificate Authorities that can't afford the bundling costs of Microsoft, Netscape, AOL, Opera and other browsers. Just because a CA can afford the big bucks to have the certificates bundled in the major browsers doesn't make them any more trustworthy than those CAs that can't afford the bundling costs. Those businesses that choose a high priced CA have to pass those higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. What you might think about is this. A business that you have a particularly large amount of trust in (why would you be doing business with them if not) and has choosen a low priced CA, probably choose that low priced CA because the business has a particularly large amount of trust in that CA. If you trust the business then why not trust the low priced CA that the business choose? You can accept the low priced CA's root certificate using your browser's pop up windows (the "warning" windows that you mentioned). It's something to think about. In the future, keep your eye on the low priced CAs (in the pop up windows) that some of your most trustworthy and innovative businesses are choosing. The days of a couple of large CAs dominating the industry are over. Even if the US government starts to require licensing (further increasing the cost barriers to entry into the industry, and increasing online business expenses even more, thus raising prices for the consumer). Government licensing of the industry is putting the fox in charge of the chicken house. Licensing is just an anti-competition measure and another indirect tax. ... ok, I'm done now on that point. :) I completely agree with your first point. I myself would never ever give my e-gold account password to *any* site other than e-gold's. Bob --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
