Re: How to buy a root CA certificate?

On 08/10/15 08:24, grarpamp wrote:

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:

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Interested in how much money is necessary to buy CA cert chaining up to a trusted root and besides money is something else necessary.

Laughably or alternatively, becoming a root isn't hard... copy and mogrify another root's policy/practice/security docs. Apply to Mozilla, Apple, MS, Oracle. And you're a root. This may actually be easier than convincing some root to tap you as an intermediate CA. Beware politics of power.

Talk to https://letsencrypt.org - see what they had to do (or if they are willing to have you chain to them) :) As it's non-commercial they may just be happy to chat tech with you for a while. I have no contacts there but I think it's part of or linked to EFF.