On 29-05-2013 19:43, Pete Stephenson wrote: > That's odd. What phone do you have?
Nokia E72. One of their last Symbian models. > Their free keys are only valid for one year, but paid users can get keys > that are valid for two years. That's not uncommon for many CAs. But hardly much better. My current key is valid for 50 years so I don't really have to worry about expiring (I'm not sure if I won't expire first before those 50 years are over...). Revoking and replacing it is always an option when the domain name changes, technology requires an update or the key gets compromised. > They're based in Israel, not the US. Wether that's better, worse or just the same is another question. But they do have US offices (they list one in New York) so they're subject to the Patriot Act. There is a reason that some cloud services in Europe broadly advertise with the fact thay they keep absolutely no relationship with the US. > Additionally, it's an option to have them generate the private key for > customers who are too lazy to generate their own private key and CSR, > but it is not required: the certificate-creation procedure also allows > for customers to provide them with a CSR produced from a > customer-generated private key. OK, I could not find that after a brief look, they did wrote about sending a private key with password protection over the mail. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
