From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdUm2-00032U-4E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:37:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAJFYvtQ010053; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:34:59 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAJFSChf016014 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:28:12 GMT Received: (qmail 49159 invoked by uid 0); 19 Nov 2005 15:28:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 19 Nov 2005 15:28:11 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:20:07 -0500 (EST) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities In-Reply-To: <437B4F19.6030903@badapple.net> Message-ID: References: <437A4861.7050500@gmail.com> <437B4F19.6030903@badapple.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: ec47a8f9-fe3e-429d-8485-8a8583a95436 X-Archives-Hash: 53d55699771ed552c2b8c724c43a7b62 On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, kashani wrote: > We've got a number of customers that use Geotrust which is > significantly cheaper than Verisign/Thwate. Someone also uses Starfield > which is dirt cheap. > > There is a technical issue when using certs no one has ever heard of > before. Many times their cert company's root certs or whatever are not > in the user's browser. GeoTrust claim to have their root cert in 99% of the browsers out there... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list