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 | | From: | Viktor Varga | | Subject: | How can somebody submit a root CA certificate? | | Date: | 5 Jan 2005 07:58:10 -0800 |
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 | I searched through the whole opera website/forums/newsgroups, but I
didn't find any info about this.
Ii I would like to submit to the Opera Software a certificate, to put
it into the default package, what should I do?
Sincerelly yours,
Viktor Varga
Netlock
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| | From: | Lee Harvey | | Subject: | Re: How can somebody submit a root CA certificate? | | Date: | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:42:32 -0500 |
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| Viktor Varga wrote:
> I searched through the whole opera website/forums/newsgroups, but I
> didn't find any info about this.
>
> Ii I would like to submit to the Opera Software a certificate, to put
> it into the default package, what should I do?
>
> Sincerelly yours,
> Viktor Varga
> Netlock
Oh, the irony...
If I goto netlock.com, it redirects me to apani.com, whose main page states:
"Trusted Networks, Trusted Hosts, & Trusted Users are...A Myth"
:D
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| | From: | Ole Kasper Olsen | | Subject: | Re: How can somebody submit a root CA certificate? | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:17:50 +0100 |
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| On 5 Jan 2005 07:58:10 -0800, Viktor Varga wrote:
> Ii I would like to submit to the Opera Software a certificate, to put
> it into the default package, what should I do?
Why on earth would you want to do that? How can I trust that sites in your
certificate hierarchy are who they say they are when I don't even know who
you are?
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mvh / Best Regards,
Ole Kasper Olsen
MSc Student -- NISlab / Gjøvik University College
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| | From: | Tim | | Subject: | Re: How can somebody submit a root CA certificate? | | Date: | Fri, 7 Jan 2005 03:02:48 +1030 |
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| Viktor Varga wrote:
>> Ii I would like to submit to the Opera Software a certificate, to put
>> it into the default package, what should I do?
"Ole Kasper Olsen" posted:
> Why on earth would you want to do that? How can I trust that sites in your
> certificate hierarchy are who they say they are when I don't even know who
> you are?
I would imagine to avoid paying the price for a certificate from some
company that does check that they're who they say they are. Part of the
expense is the work going into that verification, though I dare say that
profit and greed rack up the pricing quite a lot more.
--
If you insist on e-mailing me, use the reply-to address (it's real but
temporary). But please reply to the group, like you're supposed to.
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| | From: | Paul McGarry | | Subject: | Re: How can somebody submit a root CA certificate? | | Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:04:26 +1100 |
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| On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 03:02:48 +1030, Tim wrote:
> I would imagine to avoid paying the price for a certificate from some
> company that does check that they're who they say they are. Part of the
> expense is the work going into that verification, though I dare say that
> profit and greed rack up the pricing quite a lot more.
You can get fairly cheap (and hassle free) certificates from GoDaddy now
which seem to be compatible with all major browsers.
--
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
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| | From: | Ole Kasper Olsen | | Subject: | Re: How can somebody submit a root CA certificate? | | Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:16:15 +0100 |
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| On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:04:26 +1100, Paul McGarry
wrote:
> You can get fairly cheap (and hassle free) certificates from GoDaddy now
> which seem to be compatible with all major browsers.
From the look of it, the GoDaddy certificates are self-signed by
themselves, /not/ by a proper, trusted certificate authority. In other
words, as I don't trust GoDaddy to properly verify the identity of the
requesting party, I do not trust GoDaddy-signed certificates.
You should generally not trust certificates not signed by a known
certificate authority unless you have good reason to.
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mvh / Best Regards,
Ole Kasper Olsen
MSc Student -- NISlab / Gjøvik University College
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