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

["Stanclift, Michael" <michael.stanclift () ROCKHURST EDU>]

Is CACert supported by major browsers? Last time I looked it was spotty.

Michael Stanclift
Network Analyst
Rockhurst University

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-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Valdis 
Kletnieks
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:09 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Discontinuance of Thawte personal email certificates and Web of Trust

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/