Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

[Theodore Hope]

> > With the absorbtion of Thawte into Verisign, we're concerned that the only
> > remotely free-software-friendly commercial CA will change its policies. The
> > lack of competition bothers us too. So, let's do something about it. A good
> > CA could do more for free software than we've seen so far. We'd like to hear
> > from candidates who could assume the technical leadership of a
> > free-software-friendly CA. A deep technical background in applied cryptography
> > would be required. Please write to me at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .

The big problem here is getting Micro$oft and Netscape/AOL to agree to put
this new CA's root into their browsers.  Otherwise, it's not going to be
very useful in practice.   Or are you thinking about other apps?
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