CACert?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Wed Oct 26 09:19:01 EDT 2005


crschmidt at crschmidt.net (Christopher Schmidt) writes:

> After this thread, I joined the mailing lists for CACert, and that, if
> nothing else, convinced me that putting effort into the CACert process
> is a wonderful goal in theory, but difficult, confusing, and troubling
> in practice.
[...]
> The established procedures do not instill in me any sense of trust of
> the process or the system under which CACert is proceeding.

[...]

>  at this point I have much more trust in companies like Verisign and
> Thwate than I do in CACert, largely for technical reasons more than
> anything else. I don't feel that the administrators of the project have
> established that they have the neccesary technical skills to take the
> precautions neccesary to ensure the safety of their certificate signing
> procedure given what I have seen.

Perhaps GNHLUG, or some interested member could start a parallel
project whichhh works better?
-- 

Seeya,
Paul



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