Well, free comes at a price; yes, opencerts pretty much just make sure you own the domain for the cert you're applying for -- nothing more.
However, the biggest use of opencerts is places where a trust is already established... I get requests for ppl doing intranets that don't want to A) set up their own CA chain, B) do self-signed on each site, or C) pay $$$. With a place like opencerts, you just have one CA signing for the sites, then tell your employees to go to www.opencerts.com and install the CA public key. Oh, and it doubles as a juicer. RF On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Aaron T Porter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:00:52PM +0000, Christopher K. Neitzert wrote: > > I love www.opencerts.com now *this* is an idea whose time has long been > > overdue. > > How can this possibly be of any value? The whole point behind > having a signed certificate is having a "trusted" third party vouch that > you are who you claim to be. OpenCerts email verification is weak at > best. > At one point Bruce Perens was working with a company that was > planning to have the Notary Publics at one of the large Mailbox chains > checking photo IDs and signing certs at a very low cost -- a service > like that would have a lot more value to me. > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
