Re: [Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?
Looks like I cannot attend now, sorry to any CA cert assurers who were going to bring paperwork for me. I was also going to bring the SheevaPlug [1] in too. Maybe next time. Have fun! [1] http://www.newit.co.uk/ - note the new model with an eSATA interface. -- 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 --
Re: [Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 14:37:05 + (+), 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. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- 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 --
Re: [Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?
** Adrian Bridgett adr...@smop.co.uk [2010-01-13 09:12]: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 14:37:05 + (+), 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. ** end quote [Adrian Bridgett] I've been quite happy with StartSSL, and have had good experience from their support who I've chatted to using Pidgin / Empathy. I also use CAcert, but that's only form my internal certificates where I need a sub-domain (which isn't free with StartSSL). As a side issue, StartSSL now do DNS services free as well (currently in beta though). I'm currently split between between where my domains are registered and EveryDNS (who have just been acquired by Dyn Inc, so will likely be merged with DynDNS in due course, so no idea where the free service will stand in the long term so may well move!). My current set up was a bit of a rushed decision after having to move in a big hurry from my old hosting provider who also proviced DNS hosting. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- 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 --
Re: [Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 14:37:05 + (+), 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 --
[Hampshire] CAcert assurers at Saturdays meeting?
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. 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 --
