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Weblog:   CAcert: Digital certificates become free
Subject:   i need certificate
Date:   2005-12-06 22:25:18
From:   Jabeen
Response to: i need certificate

hi!

i am professionally a programmer. I have created an active X control for web.


Browser when browses the page it cant view thw control because it gives option of download and just says Publisher Unknown.
By browsing the net i found that the server needs the certificate in order to allow thw browser to download the control.


yup due to security purpose :)


but i want to test this only .... it isnt operational for weeks even.


i read your message the you got the certificate free


so i contacted you that how you got the certificate with no charges


and if i am wrong to contact you in this regard kindly forward me some links from where i can get free digital certificate


Thanks in advance



Regards,
Jabeen
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  • Andy Oram photo i need certificate
    2005-12-07 05:44:18  Andy Oram [Reply | View]

    This is exactly the situation for which CACert was created: an independent programmer or organization wants to get certification and doesn't want to pay the fees charged by major certification companies.

    But CACert is not accepted as a certificate authority by major browsers. (Supposedly, according to news reports, CACert made it into the Mozilla browser, but that's not getting very far in the public eye.) So a CACert certificate isn't recognized by the browsers either.

    One can ask, though, whether a certificate means much at all in this context. If I load a page running Jabeen's ActiveX control, CACert could tell me that the control really does come from Jabeen. But what more do I know about Jabeen? CACert can't tell me whether I can trust both his programming skill and his good intentions. We need a better reputation system.
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