On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 1:32 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> During the last discussion about the certificate somebody mentioned >> some provider that gave free certificates to OS projects. William did >> contact that provider, but never heard back from them, so if anybody >> has any suggestions please let us know. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael > > Funny, I was thinking the other day about the certificate issue on > Sage, having just had to sign one myself. > > There would be no harm in contacting Verisign, Thawte or any of the > other properly supported CA's and asking them if they would do a > freebie, Show them your sponsers page, say they would be added etc.
Great idea! Could you please do this? > > The problem with the cheap CA's (GoDaddy etc) is the browsers don't > support them, so people will get a warning anyway. In that case, you > might as well sign it yourself as Micky Mouse and not bother asking > them for a free one for OS projects. GoDaddy claims to give away free certs. I contacted them twice via their web form, but they ignored me. I purchased the sagenb.org domain from them. > Universities would be in a pretty good position to act as CAs for > students and staff and might well get Firefox to support them if they > did a job well. It only works for that university though, I guess... -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
