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

[Scott Dier <dierx002 () UMN EDU>]

The issue isn't lobbying -- its auditing.  I'd advise reading some of
the audit progress reports on the cacert wiki for an understanding of
where things stand.  It's a long ways off, IMO.

On Sep 30, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:15:40 EDT, jeff murphy said:
>
> > I'm pretty sure CAcert doesn't have it's root in any of the browsers,
> > which is why I didn't bring it up.
>
> Wouldn't an EDUCAUSE-sponsored project have the exact same issue,
> though?
> That's why I suggested CACert, as that gets bigger bang-for-buck if
> EDUCAUSE
> lobbies to get that root cert distributed, because non-EDUCAUSE
> groups can
> benefit as well then.

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Scott Dier <dierx002 () umn edu>
University of Minnesota
OIT Security and Assurance