> just curious, but is SSL not hierarchical? Ie you can buy some kind
> of cert, signed by $CA and then create your own certs, signing them
> with your $CA signed cert?
Yes, this works in theory, but as CA certs recognised by the main
browsers are effectively a license to print money, the certs you get
from the existing recognised CAs have the "can be used to sign other
certificates" bit disabled. It's an oligopoly-protection mechanism.
You *can* buy certs which can be used to sign other certs, but they are
*very* expensive - hundreds of thousands of euro.
Colm
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