Free Certification Authority

[Guy Rixon]

Interesting.  I see that one still has to show up in person (where?) with
physical ID. This kind of physical registration step was considered to rule
out the UK e-Science CA for VO work.

I guess that CAcert is only relevant for the VO work if users already have the
certificates before coming to use the VO.

Note that users with CAcert credentials would still need to register somewhere
in the VO in order to get authorized.  Having an identity is not quite the
same thing as having an account.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Clive Page wrote:

> I don't know if others have noticed this story from O'Reilly-net which
> describes a non-profit CAcert
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5142
>
> It will be interesting to see whether this sort of thing catches on, and
> if so whether such certificates are treated as "good enough" for the
> purposes of establishing identity.
>
>
> --
> Clive Page
> Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
> University of Leicester,
> Leicester, LE1 7RH,  U.K.
>

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