Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

[Janus Liebregts]

Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:40:56AM -0800, Dr. Greg Quinn wrote:
> > I think a free CA would be great. I really wish there was an acadmic
> > institution initiative. A big limitation as far as I can
> > see would be getting certs pre-installed into web browsers.
> > The chance of either MS or netscape doing this would be close to none.
> > If my experience is anything to go by, asking the average user to import a
> > CA can be problematic.
> 
> Well, I don't know about other countries, but at least in germany we
> do have a initiative like this (sorry, pages seem to be available only
> in german):
>         http://www.cert.dfn.de/dfnpca/
> The DFN is the provider of Internet connectivity for german acadamic
> institutions.
similar to the german DFN initiative, in the Netherlands SURFnet, as the
Dutch academic Internet Service Provider, has built the (PGP/X.509)PKI
for dutch academic institutions: http://pki.surfnet.nl

regards,
janus
http://www.sec.nl/persons/janus

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