Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

[Stefan Kelm]

Theodore,

> 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

Well, neither Microsoft nor Netscape will "agree" unless you pay A LOT of
money. We've been in touch with both companies for the past couple of
months in order to negotiate whether our DFN-PCA certificates (thanks to
Lutz for mentioning us on this list...  :-))  could be shipped with future
version of the two browsers.

At first, Netscape was very fast in telling us that the price for including
up to five "trusted roots" would be $250,000. Although we still showed
interest they suddenly stopped communicating with us. Still, this was a
better response than the silence we received from Microsoft. It took us
almost half a year of nagging to get an email back which was completely
useless!  :-(

Cheers,

        Stefan.

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