How to buy a root CA certificate?

oshwm oshwm at openmailbox.org
Thu Oct 8 00:49:32 PDT 2015



On 08/10/15 08:24, grarpamp wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
>> 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.

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