free CA?

[J.Witvliet at mindef.nl]

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Mike Wright
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 8:02 PM
To: Fedora Users
Subject: free CA?

Hi all,

Does anybody know of a free CA (Certificate Authority) that is 
recognized by common browsers?  I have some very low volume 
non-commercial sites and cannot justify spending $100/year on 
certificates for them.

I tried CAcert by no matter what I did they said they could not contact 
my mail server in order to verify me.  (Same server where my Fedora 
Users mail arrives w/o problems.)  tcpdump shows they came and carried 
on some sort of conversation.  Given all that I gave up on them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Mike Wright
-----Original Message-----

Hi Mike,

Perhaps worthwhile spending some more time on your email issue....
You did get certified? And subscribed to their M.L.? (there were some technical issues lately)

At least your primary email-address should remain reachable by cacert.
You can test that, by issuing a client certificate: you should get notified for that.

In case there is something odd with the email-address itself: You can expect the same by other CA-providers, as anyone needs to be able to verify your address.

Hans (in private live also assurer for CAcert)


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