Karl,
> However, the concept that a PERSON needs to pay upwards of $100 to get a key
> by which they can have a SSL connection work from a web server is insane.
It is not! It's a business model and if you're not prepared to pay those
commercial CAs - don't.
> Why are there no public CAs - much like the public keyrings for PGP?
But there are:
http://www.pca.dfn.de/dfnpca/pki-links.html#CA
> Why does Nutscrape and Microslug only ship with COMMERCIAL, and EXPENSIVE,
> CAs loaded?
Because non-commercial CAs simply can't afford to buy themselves into
the products. It's as simple as that. We've tried and we failed.
Cheers,
Stefan.
PS: This really isn't relevant to mod-ssl.
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