[TriLUG] CAcert meeting -- how to prepare

Jason White jason at jw2.org
Sat Feb 7 23:12:20 EST 2009


Updated list:

* Alan Porter (porter at trilug.org) [090205 15:04]:
> 
> So far, my impressions (in increasing order of suckiness):
> 
   - StartSSL.com CA is free *and* included in major browsers
>  - CAcert certs suck because they require a 1-time manual action
>  - self-signed certificates suck because they are insecure *
>  - big-name certs suck because they cost big money
>  - not using a cert sucks because that's REALLY insecure
> 
> Choose the level of suckiness you can tolerate.
> 
> CAcert clearly sucks the least!

My impression is StartSSL sucks the least.




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