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Re: Free SSL Certification Authority



 On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:58 -0500, [hidden email] wrote: 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't this a bad idea? 
> 
> *Anyone* can create their own certificate for their own website based on 
> their own created "authority," the only difference is that user's will be 
> asked if they trust the authority. 
> 
> The free SSL certificate doesn't seem to do any sort of checking to verify 
> that the SSL site has had any sort of verification. What's worse is that 
> if the authority certificate is part of Mozilla Firefox and Safari, then 
> they are insecure. 


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