[hackerspaces] Trouble getting to the wiki

[Mark Steward]

Also https://letsencrypt.org/ is coming this year. Hopefully that will get
the acceptance CAcert failed at.


Mark

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Walter van Holst <walter at revspace.nl>
wrote:

> On 2015-05-12 16:06, dosman wrote:
>
>> Not to fan the flames, but how many people actually take the time to
>> verify the trust chain of certs that grew up on the right side of the
>> tracks? Do you know where your cert has been spending time after
>> school? The bad thing about the systems hate for self signed certs is
>> that constantly having to click through alarm dialogs for them on your
>> sites will easily cause you to miss a real cert problem.
>>
>> But I digress, there are free CA’s now, probably best to use one of
>> those.
>>
>
>
> Exactly. CA-CERT was a nice idea. It is time to give up on it, it only
> encourages bad habits as long as the major browser makers do not accept its
> root certificate. And that is not going to change anytime soon, to the best
> of my understanding.
>
> It's dead Jim.
>
> Regards,
>
>  Walter
>
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