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Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust
From: Charles Hedrick <hedrick () RUTGERS EDU>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:11:48 -0400
Thawte certs were used for email primarily, not web servers. For a web server I really want a root that's in the browsers, because I don't want our users ignoring warnings. However for email I think it's reasonable to require people who want assurance to load a root CA. I'm going to propose that Rutgers extend our existing internal cert system to issue certs for email. I'd love to see EDUCAUSE or possibly INCOMMON come up with a common root that we could use. But maybe CACERT will do. On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:49:00 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:15:40 EDT, jeff murphy said:I'm pretty sure CAcert doesn't have it's root in any of the browsers, which is why I didn't bring it up.Wouldn't an EDUCAUSE-sponsored project have the exact same issue, though? That's why I suggested CACert, as that gets bigger bang-for-buck if EDUCAUSE lobbies to get that root cert distributed, because non-EDUCAUSE groups can benefit as well then.
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- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust, (continued)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust James R. Pardonek (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Ken Connelly (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Stanclift, Michael (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust jeff murphy (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Plesco, Todd (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Ken Layng (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Mike Wiseman (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Scott Dier (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Charles Hedrick (Sep 30)
- Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust Jeremy Mooney (Sep 30)