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Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?


From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:32:07 -0500


Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu  writes on 12/5/2003 1:28 PM:

The three ways to disable the popup:

1) Have the user accept a CA cert for your site. Help Desk Nightmare.
2) Have the user disable the popup. Help Desk Nightmare.
3) Get the top-level-CA cartel to accept your CA cert in the list of ones
bundled into IE.

4. For ISPs looking to run SSL sites for their own users - distribute copies of IE and Mozilla / Netscape that have your cert embedded in already.

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