> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 14:37:05 +0000 (+0000), Imran Chaudhry wrote: >> Will there be any CA cert assurers at Saturdays meeting? >> >> At the last meeting, Tony and Ciemon assured me (I think I gave >> details to Hugo who has yet to assure me). I need another 15 points >> before I can create 2-year certs. Eventually I'd like to become an >> assurer myself. > > Yep, I'm one. I have to say though, I've lost all faith in CAcert's > ability to execute. Getting a cert from trustico is cheap, from > star-ssl (IIRC) they are free (and in browsers unlike self-signed > ones). So a major reason for me (avoiding paying astronomical fees to > Verislime) has gone.
http://cert.startcom.org/ Thanks, interesting, it really does seem to be free. The root CA is even in my Firefox 3.5 by default. Part of the reason I wanted to go with CAcert is that one gets a warm fuzzy feeling from being part of an effort that is a community-led, anti-corporate, stick-it-to-the-man sort of way. I figured I'd use them if I need to secure say an open-source or demo project site. Anything more and I'd go with Thawte or RapidSSL. With regards commercial CAs, I have used rapidssl.com is the past which provide a pretty good service (they gave me a free re-issue when I pointed out the MD5 signature algorithm vulnerability). So weather permitting, I will try and be there with my ID docs. Will you have the CA assurer forms with you if you're attending? Thanks! -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------