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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 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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