<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">On December 9, 2018 11:17:34 AM AKST, Stefan Claas <stefan.claas@posteo.de> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:11:12 +0100, Juergen Bruckner wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Am 09.12.18 um 18:24 schrieb Dirk Gottschalk via Gnupg-users:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">And further, why should anyone run something like a ca CA for free.<br>Sure, CAcert does it. But that's the onlöy organisation I know who<br>does this. <br></blockquote><br>Also WPIA [1] plans to do this and started a audit process for their<br>CA.<br><br>regards<br>Juergen<br><br>[1] <a href="https://wpia.club">https://wpia.club</a><br></blockquote><br>Very cool Juergen! <br><br>Regards<br>Stefan<br></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>What was that German company, StartSSL or something, that offered free certs for a while, big on S/MIME, (almost deprecated PGP/GPG,) and personal client certificates on the browser, that sort of thing?<br><br>Then there was a big kerfuffle because the Chinese allegedly bought them out.<br><br>Then EFF / certbot / letsencrypt started offering them. It's a "gentleman's agreement" of sorts. One and only one CA will offer "free" certs, and they're "well-known," basically for development and not for e-commerce.<br><br>I'm rather upset with EFF at the moment, by the way. They're always pushing "adult content" like a bunch of porno addicts and they have acquired almost a Salesforce- or SAP-like CRM system in their back office, collecting lot of personal information on political dissidents and precisely the privacy-minded individuals who would rather not have such possibly derogatory information collected about them.<br>-- <br>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.<br><br><a href="https://www.colmena.biz/~justina/justina.colmena.asc">https://www.colmena.biz/~justina/justina.colmena.asc</a></body></html>