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It's time to have some kind of governing body
to force the browser makers include all accredited
CA's in the list of automatically trusted CA's.
Not the ones that pay them big $$$.
Cheers
Paul
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Gee,
>
> Before I get flamed for the Subject:
> Of course, Verisign and Thawte are American and South African
> companies, so cannot be a monopoly(Two American companies
> doing this likely would), and of course NSI, the major marketer of
> Versign certs, is a registrar for domains, and this cannot be
> considered as a monopoly either.
>
> First I've heard any comments on the list, and I've been listening for
> a while now.
>
> You may want to check out the project forming at
> http://www.freecert.org
>
> Bill Laakkonen
>
> On 28 Mar 00, at 10:30, Tariq Habib wrote:
>
> > I fully support your point of view.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 5:20 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Verisign
> > >
> > >
> > > I just found out that Verising has aquired NSI. A short while back they
> > > aquired Thawte .
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I think some of us should be looking into ways to get certs from a "real"
> > > competitor to Verisign recognized by IE and Netscape.
> > >
> > > I know that netscape allows easy importation of a cert and that IE is a
> > > bit of a bugger - but for the vast majority of the great unwashed public
> > > they need a "clean" simple and brain-dead solution or they will continue
> > > to go with the flow.
> > >
> > > Consentration of economic power like we see in Verisign at this point is
> > > NEVER healthy - or am I overreacting?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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