[clue-tech] CAcert issues

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Wed Mar 30 22:15:03 MST 2005



David Anselmi wrote:

> 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. 


I just looked at it and CACertificateFile is equal to CertificateFile.  
So, I don't know what that means.

Angelo




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