[65714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Fri Dec 5 13:15:53 2003
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:14:48 -0800
From: Mark Foster <mark@foster.cc>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200312051727.hB5HRQps015568@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:26:33 CST, Adi Linden said:
>
>>>So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert
>>>doesn't provide?
>>
>>No popup box on the browser asking to accept the certificate.
>
>
> "Pay us $1,000 or we'll annoy your users with popups".
The CA does not popup a warning. It is the browser or client application
that does this.
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