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?
>

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