[lug] CaCert

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Aug 27 20:59:50 MDT 2007


Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
[...]
> Both Microsoft and Apple require a WebTrust audit to be included into
> IE and Safari respectively.  A WebTrust audit is expensive, and not
> really affordable for a non-profit like CACert.   At least that's what
> the wiki says on this matter.

There's some expense involved in actually doing verification correctly. 
  If they can manage that as a non-profit I wonder what fraction of Free 
Software users need to send in $10 to fund the audit?  Mark Shuttleworth 
could snap his fingers and it'd be done.

Here's to someday.

Dave



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