[150190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: X.509 Certs For Personal Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Sat Feb 18 11:38:31 2012
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:37:37 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120218104452.62cc383e@milhouse>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John Peach (john-nanog) writes:
> >
> > "Your request is being held up for review by our personnel".
> >
> > Up to 6 hours. Must be their definition of instant :)
>
> It's nice to see that they actually do random reviews, rather than just
> issuing everything requested. I use startssl and have not had anything
> held for review.
And I did get my account and cert shortly after. So they are quick.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd trust a cert where they
happen to be the ones generating the key and the CSR themselves.
Yes, it's free, but that doesn't mean I want to give up all forms
of security :)
Cheers,
Phil
