Alexander 'Alfe' Fetke wrote:
> I am not looking for a long-time service but just for a single act of
> service: The CA shall have a close look at us to be sure that we are who
> we claim to be and then issue a certificate which states that -- nothing
> more :-}
>
> Is no commercial CA capable and willing to offer such a service?
I would rather doubt it, I'm afraid, since what you would effectively be
receiving, if you by 'commercial CA' mean 'a CA trusted by current web
browser implementations', would be your very own CA certificate capable
of issuing certificates which would then in turn also be trusted by the
current crop of web browsers/relying parties.
So looking at this from a purely business-centric view, you are looking
for a commercial CA to sell you the tools required for you to go into
head-to-head competition with them, and at a conveniently fixed one-time
price at that. :-)
Plus, none of the current browsers, IIRC, have working revocation
mechanisms in place anyway, so I know I would personally be *very* wary
of trusting any authority using such certification practices.
//oscar
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