From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 22 15:51:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17EC437B404 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013C343E6A for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13971; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:51:13 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook is dangerous and makes your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20021022163729.00c4a600@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:51:09 -0600 To: benjamin@seattlefenix.net From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Verisign, Thawte, Entrust, whom? Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , ulf@Alameda.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021022032110.GF604@surreal.seattlefenix.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021021195034.02b20c70@localhost> <031601c2792f$34e371a0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> <20021021121147.G27297@seven.alameda.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20021021195034.02b20c70@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Possibly. But then again, I can always go to Verisign and get a certificate that makes the world believe my machine is a Microsoft server. ;-) --Brett At 09:21 PM 10/21/2002, Benjamin Krueger wrote: >Thus rendering useless half of the purpose of Secure Certificates. >Oh sure, your customers get secure (128bits!) communications with >an HTTPS server. "An" HTTPS server, but possibly not "your" HTTPS >server. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message