David O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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).
Yes, in reality the majority on Internet users are trusting Microsoft's
choice of CAs. I wonder how much these companies pay to get into IE?
Nick
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