[lug] CaCert

John Hernandez jph at jph.net
Mon Aug 27 16:25:36 MDT 2007


On 8/27/07, dio2002 at indra.com <dio2002 at indra.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Not quite.  The CACert root certificate is not in all browsers.  Many
> > Linux distro's add it to Firefox and such, but it is not included in
> > Firefox to begin with, there is a process that CACert is going through
> > to get into Mozilla/Firefox.
>
> so is there any real benefit to cacert versus just signing my own
> certificate?  It looks like the popoup is going to come either way.


>From a practical point of view, you've hit the nail on the head.  Until they
achieve at least top-2 browser inclusion, the table seems heavily slanted
against CACert.
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