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Message-ID: <200403210756.57255.jeremiah@nur.net>
From: jeremiah at nur.net (Jeremiah Cornelius)
Subject: Free x.509 Certs (WAS Re: NEVER open attachments)
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On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:16, Bill Royds wrote:
> So the value of signing your messages ?doesn't really scale.
> That is why S/MIME is used by most commercial MUA's. Even though you have
> to pay for the certificate, you can pretty well guarantee that the public
> key will be available when one needs to verify the message.
You don't have to pay for the certificate to use S/MIME. You don't have to be
self-signed for free x.509 personal certs.
I have been using the Comodo issued, InstantSSL certs for S/MIME and document
encryption/verification. There has never been a hitch in validating the
certification path.
Thawte has free personal certificates as well. They used to implement a
strange "web of trust", where you could visit a notary to validate your
identity. PITY.
IPSCA has free personal certs too. No experience with them, but they are in
the Mozilla/IE root cert stores.
http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-email-certificate.html?currency=USD®ion=North%
20America
https://www.thawte.com/cgi/enroll/personal/step1.exe
http://certs.ipsca.com/Products/SMIME.asp
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