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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SSL-Certificates and CAcert
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:53:37
Message-Id: 46FBCE35.9090002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] SSL-Certificates and CAcert by "Hanno Böck"
1 Hanno Böck wrote:
2 > I think compared to self-signed, having cacert-certificates would be a big
3 > improvement. Many other free software projects (and more and more other
4 > pages) use cacert, so it becomes more and more likely that people will
5 > already have the cacert-root-cert installed.
6
7 How does a CAcert certificate help? Their own certificate for
8 https://www.cacert.org/ can't be verified by Firefox 2.0.0.7, which tells me
9 that their CA isn't trusted by default.
10
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12 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
13 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] SSL-Certificates and CAcert "Hanno Böck" <hanno@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] SSL-Certificates and CAcert Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>