On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:04, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Colin Whittaker wrote:
>> > costs lots though, according to some CAs i have spoken to, 500K+
>> nice, i suppose thats one way to keep the plebs from signing their
> own certs.
You can sign your own certs to your heart's content, but they won't be
widely trusted/accepted. People trust Verisign and other big CAs (or at
least they act as if they do, by not removing the CAs' root certs from
their web browsers).
David
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