On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:00:06PM +0000, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> 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?
In true Dr. Evil style it is 1 Million dollars
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