[117693] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: delegating SSL certificates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Mar 19 14:03:15 2008
Date: 17 Mar 2008 18:49:45 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.61.0803170952020.21837@mental>
Cc: leichter_jerrold@emc.com
>| Presumably the value they add is that they keep browsers from popping
>| up scary warning messages....
>Apple's Mail.app checks certs on SSL-based mail server connections.
>It has the good - but also bad - feature that it *always* asks for
>user approval if it gets a cert it doesn't like.
Good point -- other mail programs such as Thunderbird also pop up
the scary warnings. I've paid the $15 protection money for the certs
on my mail servers.
R's,
John
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