Norman Gray wrote:
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> On 2006 Aug 18 , at 14.35, Peter W. Draper wrote:
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>>> You can get a free E-mail certificate from
>>> http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-certificates/index.html
>>>
>>
>> I'd seen some descriptions of this one. The downside (as with many of
>> these free ones) is that their root certificates are not distributed
>> by SUN/Java, so it's still a fuss.
>
> I've got one -- it's signing this message. But I think it's flagged as
> being for signing messages, and not signing code. Hang on -- how does
> that work, then...? I'll have a closer look at this, as I've been doing
> work with certificates recently.
>
I have an interest in this sort of thing at the moment. It does appear
to be a necessary evil these days, but the cost is significant and I am
not convinced that it has proved itself as a technology for everyone to
use. These certs are dam complicated!
Steve.
> Thawte was one of the first big commercial CAs, and was bought out by
> Verisign a few years ago (making its one-time owner, Mark Shuttleworth,
> enough money that he could afford to be the world's first space tourist,
> and now the sponsor of Ubuntu; yes, _that_ Mark Shuttleworth). Their
> roots are very well distributed, and are in most browsers. If this
> message shows up in your UI as being signed, that's why.
>
> See you,
>
> Norman
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