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Free Certificate Authority Unveiled by Aussies

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the good-things-from-down-under dept.

SonOfGates writes "Well, the Aussies have invaded Boston but at least they're not throwing tea into the harbor. AU-based nonprofit CAcert Inc has spent the last few days at USENIX '04 registering new users by the truckload. They bill themselves as a 'Community-Based CA.' Could this be the begining of a true 'open' certificate authority? See the O'Reilly story and press release."

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  1. Re:who else remmbers by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Funny

    Considering all the malware windows accumulates, if people rebooted every time they got a weird popup/error they'd never get anything done.

    illustrative anecdote: Today, at my girlfriend's house, she was trying to use IE to check her webmail. Every time a new page loaded, a message popped up saying she needed activex (or something, she was so used to the messages that she clicked the close box really fast), and then another box popped up with something to the effect of "are you sure?".

    Anyway, I installed firefox for her before letting her finish checking her mail, but the point is that people get quite tolerant of popup crap.

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  2. Re:Invalid XHTMl, Invalid CSS, Default Index by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    When they say they're open... they really mean they're open.

  3. Re:who else remmbers by Azari · · Score: 3, Funny

    MS has absolutely no opposition to open wallets.

  4. Re:Australia sucks by mabu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lucky for you America hasn't banned stupidity and ignorance.

  5. Re:who else remmbers by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 5, Funny
    Just make an unsigned ActiveX control to import the cert. People click "yes" on those things all the freaking time.

    For that matter, just tell people to click "yes" to accept your uncertified cert...they'll do that too.

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  6. You know us Aussies by mister_tim · · Score: 2, Funny

    This coming from an Australian company? Hardly suprising: us Aussies are always happy to get something for nothing. Getting away with it is always a boasting point and something akin to a national sport/pastime.

  7. Re:who else remmbers by VivianC · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...judging from Microsoft's general resistance to anything open.

    You are obviously one of those /. anti-Microsoft trolls. How could you accuse them of being against anything open? Outlook and IE are two of the most "open" programs I've ever seen. And don't even get me started on how "open" Windows is in general when you stick it on a broadband connection without a firewall. That was four hours of cleaning at my cousin's house last weekend.

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  8. Re:who else remmbers by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

    It took you four hours to install Linux?