Cypherpunk Certification Authority

[Jyri Kaljundi]

On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Jeff Weinstein wrote:

> Alex Strasheim wrote:
> > 
> > > Basicly when the browser finds a new CA that it does know about it promts
> > > the user and through a series of dialog boxes the user chooses to trust it
> > > or not.
> > 
> > Is anyone running an ssl web server that would let us see how this works?
> 
>   A little bird pointed me toward https://www.secret.org.  I have no
> idea who they are...

Another way to see the dialog boxes is to delete one of the CA's that 
came with Netscape Navigator and then connect to for example 
https://www.netscape.com/

What software there is available (preferably non-commercial) to become a 
CA? Is for example the SSLeay package enough?


Jüri Kaljundi
jk at digit.ee
Digiturg http://www.digit.ee/