Posted by
michael
on from the snake-oil-enterprises dept.
lisam writes "Rob Flickenger shows how to become your own Certificate Authority, and sign your own, or others', SSL certificates in this onlamp.com article. (He also manages to mention fnords and deny responsiblity for the Microsoft Corporation cert snafu.)"
Re:This is important, but...
by
4of12
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I've thought the only way for a new entity to establish a trust relationship is to tie into some existing entity with a surety bond.
If rw2 CAnonical Enterprises, Inc. could convince me that some chunk of money backed up any and all claims of their identity, then I'd be willing to transact business using them.
But I don't see how to do this unless the existing entity is a bank. From what I understand, becoming a bank is no trivial task.
-- "Provided by the management for your protection."
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I've thought the only way for a new entity to establish a trust relationship is to tie into some existing entity with a surety bond.
If rw2 CAnonical Enterprises, Inc. could convince me that some chunk of money backed up any and all claims of their identity, then I'd be willing to transact business using them.
But I don't see how to do this unless the existing entity is a bank. From what I understand, becoming a bank is no trivial task.
"Provided by the management for your protection."