"Unified Communications", stupid software vendors, customer pressure.
Some CAs refuse to deliver such certificates and either lose money or manage to educate the client. 2011/11/9 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>: [...] > I note that of the CAs who issued .local certs in the last month before > the dataset was gathered, we have: > > * thawte > * verisign > * comodo > * godaddy > * register.com > * starfield > * geotrust > * globalsign > * usertrust > * digicert > > It's a who's who of major CAs directly issuing these things, not > subordinate CAs. > > Am i wrong in thinking that this makes the "please recount the number of > CAs" concern seem like a distraction from deeper issues? > > Is there some reason that a legit CA should be certifying names in the > .local zone at all? -- Erwann.
