Aaron, your home imap requires that much security? must be some pretty snazzy spam you get at primate.net ;P
I guess what it boils down to is: who do you trust more, a big greedy monolpolistic corp. or an individual who created a solution to a problem that was vexing him? I've used these certs at home for my imap and it works just great. christopher Christopher K. Neitzert / 0xC10D222F / [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Aaron T Porter wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:17:42 -0700 > From: Aaron T Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Christopher K. Neitzert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: Certificate Athorities. > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:45:38PM +0000, Christopher K. Neitzert wrote: > > > Opencerts is about as valuble as using your own CA and generating your own > > certificates. Possibly more so for two reasons. > > 1. With opencerts there is a means to track who created the certificate by > > email. > > 2. The average user doesnt have to go mucking with openssl. > > But by allowing Opencerts into your trust ring, you're giving the > "thumbs up" not only to your certificates but to all the other certs they > sign too, which in my mind makes it a lot worse than setting up your own > CA. Ryan's obviously done a lot of work to get this working, but wouldn't > it be a lot better to publish an easy to setup and run CA than to create > a very muddy, weakly authenticated certificate pool? > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
