SSL Certificate

Luke Schierer lschiere at pidgin.im
Fri Dec 5 07:01:09 EST 2008


On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:37:04PM -0500, John Bailey wrote:
> (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> > Olá Mark e a todos.
> > 
> > On Wednesday 03 December 2008 22:49:31 Mark Doliner wrote:
> >> How do people feel about actually buying a certificate?  Is it worth
> >> it?  If we get a certificate for only developer.pidgin.im it's about
> >> $27 a year.
> > 
> > Nobody here likes cacert [1] ?
> > Debian/Ubuntu and Firefox, to state a few, already bring the root key. IE/Windows humm you know the drill: pay up.
> > 
> > [1]http://www.cacert.org/
> 
> A CA whose root certificate is not trusted in the vast majority of browsers
> (face it, we have IE to worry about since we have Windows users) is pretty much
> completely out of the question.  We need a cert that verifies automatically in
> as many browsers as possible to reduce complaints about "Your cert isn't
> verifiable!" or "Your cert needs to be signed by a more recognized CA!"
> 
> John
> 

While I very much like the idea of cacert, John is exactly right here.

Luke




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