From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IavgH-0003AC-BI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:53:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8RFgc7F026107; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:42:38 GMT Received: from creativecommunications.com (creativecommunications.com [65.17.124.162]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8RFbrpe016970 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:37:54 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BE168C04B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:37:52 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at creativecommunications.com Received: from creativecommunications.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (creativecommunications.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ySApNxNhycJg for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:37:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.80] (unknown [192.168.1.80]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43C368C003 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:37:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <46FBCE35.9090002@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:37:25 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070806) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SSL-Certificates and CAcert References: <200709271723.26356.hanno@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200709271723.26356.hanno@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l8RFgc8v026107 X-Archives-Salt: 8bbbb10e-90aa-4d4b-9600-bed3452b0fb2 X-Archives-Hash: 3cd90e9d82c282951129c2045e0344a3 Hanno B=F6ck wrote: > I think compared to self-signed, having cacert-certificates would be a = big=20 > improvement. Many other free software projects (and more and more other= =20 > pages) use cacert, so it becomes more and more likely that people will=20 > already have the cacert-root-cert installed. How does a CAcert certificate help? Their own certificate for=20 https://www.cacert.org/ can't be verified by Firefox 2.0.0.7, which tells= me=20 that their CA isn't trusted by default. --=20 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~aga= ffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coord= inator --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list