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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Bruce Perens wrote:
> With the absorbtion of Thawte into Verisign, we're concerned that the only
> remotely free-software-friendly commercial CA will change its policies.

You're not the only one concerned; there's a lot of ISPs very concerned
that we're about to lose our only "second option" for certificate signing.

Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> is trying to pull together people and
resources to start a reasonably-priced or zero-cost, to the end-user, CA.
The project has been initially dubbed "freecert" (ala freecert.org, no
webpage as yet), and they have a discussion mailing list (a blank email to
freecert-subscribe@flounder.net will subscribe you).

Perhaps your goals might coincide well? I don't suspect these are the only
two initiatives resulting from the (not-yet-SEC-approved) merger, and it
would be nice to not duplicate effort all over the place...

(I don't represent any of them, I'm just an observer who happened to
notice Adam's posting on the inet-access mailing list.)

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Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> http://www.xnet.com/~emarshal/
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From: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
> Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> is trying to pull together people and
> resources to start a reasonably-priced or zero-cost, to the end-user, CA.
> [...]
> Perhaps your goals might coincide well?

They just might. I'll get in touch with them.

Thanks

Bruce