Re: I want to become a Certified CA

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran)
Date: 05/17/02 

From: jcochran at naplesgov dot com (Jeff Cochran)
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:33:07 GMT

>Listen Jeff, I am more than willing to admit when I am
>wrong so just tell my why I have to pay the money. Tell
>me there is something I have not thought of so that I come
>back and say, you know what, I agree, it is worth the
>money to pay to the CA. But you have not come up with a
>valid reason in your response. My rebuttal addresses each
>stance you took as to why someone should pay for this (at
>least I hope so).

We're talking comparing apples and donuts here. You wanted to become
an authorized CA, which I mistakenly understood as you wanting to
issue certificates the same way Verisign does. You're actually
talking about simply issuing a certificate that the browser
auto-installs as a trusted source.

Either way you'll need to deal with the issues of securing your data,
that's not a CA function. And if you can get your customers to
install the certificates manually, which is easy enough, then you
should be happy.

The philosophy of this I won't bother to get baited into a debate on,
sorry. I'm one of those who sees a monopoly and doesn't care, as long
as it works in my favor most of the time. :)

Jeff

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