[NYSA] CACert: certificate authority certificates, obtain one, become issuer

Thu Jul 1 19:08:29 PDT 2004

On Jul 1, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> This just sounds interesting as an idea.  So I'm sharing.
> (I don't expect that y'all will be heading to the Apple store
> in NYC ;)

Please forgive this self serving post, but CACert has been at USENIX'04 
in Boston all week signing folks up and doing BoFs.

O'Reilly has a piece here:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5142

I spoke with a marketing and pr guy a bit about getting organizational 
certs and he told me they aren't quite there yet. They're working on 
setting up a very automated way for orgs to manage their certs despite 
changing staff and machines. At the moment they can do certs for people 
they can authenticate with government photo i.d. I'd love to replace 
the private certs we use for secure imap with something that doesn't 
cause MUAs to gripe about unrecognized certs...

Tony Del Porto
SysAdmin, Conference Network Coordinator
USENIX Association
2560 9th Street, Suite 215, Berkeley CA 94710
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