RE: [ga] Registration process suggestion

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

CA's are accessable to any Linux system, see <http://www.openssl.org>
This makes them accessible to anyone, anywhere. Anyone can setup a CA.
Although, the tinker factor is fairly high. However, for our purposes, the
DHSO.ORG server can be their own CA. In fact, that is the best CA for this
bunch. Elswise the costs are too high. We have enough developer and SA
talent in this group that I am sure that we can set this up for ourselves.
We might even ask Ben or Adam Laurie to help us out here.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
> [mailto:froomkin@law.miami.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:33 PM
> To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Cc: ga@dnso.org; Harald Alvestrand; Roberto Gaetano
> Subject: Re: [ga] Registration process suggestion
>
>
> I think a solution that relies on access to a CA will be biased against
> most of the world.  CAs are not accessible to most people in most
> countries, at least not yet.  then there's the problem of concentration in
> the CA market .... we don't have a clear idea of what a trustworthy
> identity cert is likely to cost in even the near future.