Paul Rubin enlightened us with:
> If you're paranoid, you can scrounge some $20 obsolete laptop from
> ebay and dedicate it to use as a CA, never letting it touch the
> internet (transfer files to and from it on floppy disc).

caCert use a special box for this too. It has no network connection,
and communicates through a serial cable. All it does with that serial
cable is accept certificate requests and spit out signed certificates
:)

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? 
                                             Frank Zappa
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