17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Oct 1995, Jeff Weinstein wrote:
If you take a look at verisign's home page, they will be offering "low assurance" certificates for free for non-commercial uses. The only thing they will guarantee about these certs is that the subject name in the certificate is unique across all certificates signed by their class I CA. You should be able to get one of these certs in real time via an HTML form.
What is the point of this? What is to prevent someone from getting certificates for a million of the most common and/or famous names as quickly as possible? Wei Dai