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Richard Pieri richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sun Apr 4 21:42:23 EDT 2010


On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> So it turns out the first CA, with their requirements for documentation 
> and actual humans looking at it and sending me questions, was the one 
> with the "Cadillac" service. Sad.

What's sad is that Netscape went with a CA-based system rather than a trust-based system.  The world has been stuck with the consequences of that decision for the past 15 years.

--Rich P.







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