Use the mime: application/x-x509-ca-cert
Hazel
>
>
> Does anyone have the URL for how Netsape and/or MSIE validate or
> test then accept a CA for inclusion in their web browsers?
>
> I tried a lot of combinations on some search engines and hit a blank
> I am thinking about trying the phone and calling Redmond Washington and
> California to ask, but expect that will be difficult and at least an hour
> or more on the phone as well.
>
> I saw some emails on the list that mentioned that maybe the
> CA would pay a big fee and then have to pass an evaluation.
>
> I know that the RSA patent is expiring sept21 in the US and
> I expect that a lot more CA's will pop up like the www.equifax.com
> With OpenSSL and some scripts like at www.openca.org and
> then proving your company is reputable and then somehow paying
> or begging the web browsers to include them as a CA then a lot of CAs
> could be popping up by the end of the year. Why not some of us?
>
> FYI, on the website for equifax:
> EQUIFAX SECURE ANNOUNCES A STRATEGIC AGREEMENT WITH C2NET TO BUNDLE
> EQUIFAX SERVER CERTIFICATES WITH THE NEW STRONGHOLD 3 SERVER PRODUCT
> ATLANTA (June 13, 2000 ) -- Equifax Secure, a unit of Equifax Inc., today
> announced that C2Net Software, Inc., has selected Equifax Secure to be the
> exclusive server-certificate provider for the latest version of its secure
> web server software, Stronghold 3.
>
>
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