Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

Fri Dec 5 18:32:07 UTC 2003

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu  writes on 12/5/2003 1:28 PM:

> The three ways to disable the popup:
> 
> 1) Have the user accept a CA cert for your site. Help Desk Nightmare.
> 2) Have the user disable the popup. Help Desk Nightmare.
> 3) Get the top-level-CA cartel to accept your CA cert in the list of ones
> bundled into IE.

4. For ISPs looking to run SSL sites for their own users - distribute 
copies of IE and Mozilla / Netscape that have your cert embedded in already.

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