[olug] CA Cert Web Of Trust

[Rob Townley]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:31 PM, T. J. Brumfield<enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Firefox is saying the cert is fine here. Is your time and date set
> correctly on your PC?

CaCert is not included in browsers because CaCert hasn't paid the fee
to have a security audit done.  Unless your distribution or your
version of Firefox includes it (CentOS and Fedora 9 do not).
http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3
At some point, there has to be verification that a certificate
representing X is actually coming from X.  That takes time which is
money.

>
> -- T. J. Brumfield
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Adam Lassek<adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
>> Just went to their website and my browser warned me that their certificate
>> wasn't trusted... what was it they do, again?
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Shawn L. Djernes <shawn at djernes.org>wrote:
>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Has anyone thought about having a "Signing Party" as part of a meeting?
>>>
>>> CA Cert http://cacert.org provides **FREE** SSL Certificates, but to
>>> be able to have a certificate valid for a year you must have a WOT
>>> (Web of Trust) level of 50 or above.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know anyone (besides me) who is a member of CA Cert?  Do
>>> they have an Assurance Level to Verify Others?
>>>
>>> Also how about signing of GPG Keys?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shawn
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32)
>>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
>>>
>>> iD8DBQFKcHfjyF1ZojV7+hoRAvrzAJoDcGEqJcXPMqCr4N3snvPUPp8FWACgh1a3
>>> V24tz9k/yl4i2MfMuPwpznc=
>>> =ucWB
>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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