CACert (was Re: [Wolves] A day with the boys from GLLUG)

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Fri May 5 21:48:18 BST 2006


On 05/05/06, Andy Smith <andy at lug.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:52:00PM +0100, Shane M. Coughlan wrote:
> > Andy Smith wrote:
> > > Agree, the SSL cert industry is a scam and unfortunately I don't see
> > > that changing any time soon.
> >
> > Well, I'm not a fan of it...but I would not go so far as to call it a
> > scam.  Certs can be really useful for some purposes, and they are often
> > relatively cheap.
>
> I'm not denying SSL certs are useful, but the majority of their use
> is obtained just by generating your own.
>
> What you supposedly pay for is some other entity to certify that you
> really are who you say you are, yet verisign and others at the high
> end don't appear to be very diligent at this so it's basically a
> cartel between them and the browser vendors to print money.
>
> Anyone who wants to improve on this, what is the greatest barrier to
> them doing so?  It's not actually being able to do the job, it's..
> money to get in the browsers!
>
> > IMHO we need some form of verification.  SSL certs provide a potential
> > avenue, but I'd like to see something else.  Any suggestions anyone?
>
> It needs someone gifted at marketing and business plans and getting
> lots of venture capital to work out how to sell this one to
> Microsoft and Mozilla first.  The underlying technology does not
> seem to matter at all. :(
>
> Sorry to be so cynical!
>
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>

Remind me, what company was it the Mark Shuttleworth formed that made
him all his money?  Which then, once he had sold it, enabled him to
fund the Ubuntu distro...

:-)

Wasn't that one of the cert' companies?  Or should I go back to sleep?
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