[clue-tech] CAcert issues

[David Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> The other thing about do-it-yourself CA is that without a third
> party, there's really no point int having a CA anyway.

Nonsense.  You need a CA to create certificates, which browsers use for 
authentication.  You can use a third party CA for assurance or some 
other mechanism.  For casual browsing they are probably identical and 
for serious browsing a third party is more likely to be inadequate. 
SSH, which uses the same public key crypto as TLS/SSL *doesn't* use 
certificates at all.  It can still provide assured authentication, but 
through a different mechanism.

Dave