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On Dec 30, 2007 12:58 PM, <[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. > > > > > From: Fred <[hidden email]> > > Subject: Free SSL Certification Authority > > To: Boston Linux Usergroup <[hidden email]> > > Message-ID: <1199017536.13633.4.camel@jupiter> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > For those interested in certificates, check this out: > > > > http://cert.startcom.org/ > > > > I have not tried them myself yet, but will soon. Supposedly their > > certificates will work in most up-to-date browsers and the like, but I > > have not verified this. > > > > -Fred > >
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