Re: Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:47:34 EDT, jeff murphy said:

> Ignoring personal accounts, it would be interesting to see EDUCAUSE
> (identity & access mgmt) investigate whether this can be provided to
> EDUs. Similar to the way .edu is managed by EDUCAUSE, perhaps it's
> possible to obtain an EDUCAUSE chained root cert by one of the
> existing roots (IPS?) and then allow EDUs to issue email/TLS certs for
> themselves using an EDUCAUSE hosted interface. The ability to do this
> for TLS (SSL) certs alone would be a significant win, from a financial
> and security perspective, for the EDU community.

Or just leverage the CACert project?

http://www.cacert.org/

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