Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

[Pete Chown]

Dr. Greg Quinn wrote:

> 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.

Yes.  On the other hand, there is a way of giving people a trusted
copy of the root certificate without it being pre-installed.  You get
a certificate from some other CA, and use that on the web server that
supplies the root cert.  People thus know that the copy of the root
cert they are receiving really comes from freecert.  (Of course, they
don't know how much freecert is to be trusted.)

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