(I /hate/ that I have to click 'reply all' to reply to the original poster /and/ the list.)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kyle Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 15, 2006 6:24 PM Subject: Re: cacert.org To: Frank Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As I recall, cacert.org was planning to be audited by one of the Mozilla guys directly. I don't know who, and I don't know when, but I kinda recall some discussion of this. -Kyle H On 2/15/06, Frank Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manuzhai wrote: > > Even with the danger of opening a can of worms here, I wonder what the > > status on inclusion of the cacert.org root cert is. The bug [1] has very > > interesting and lively discussion over a span of, oh, 30 months, and on > > the status page [2] it says that the CAcert inclusion is Pending, while > > most other inclusions that haven't been approved seem to say Processing. > > What does CAcert need to do to get from Pending to Processing? The audit > > doesn't seem like the necessary step, as there are other CA's mentioned > > as Processing which don't have an audit. > > The "pending" vs. "processing" distinction is confusing and not really > necessary; also, "processing" didn't have anything to do with having an > audit or not. I can't remember why I made this distinction, and I'll > probably just change all the status indicators to use "pending", and > eliminate the use of "processing". > > Regarding CAcert.org, the basic situation is that, like all CAs, it has > to go through some sort of audit or audit-like process. If you want to > know what they're currently doing with regard to that requirement, I > suggest contacting CAcert directly; I don't want to speak for them. > > Frank > > -- > Frank Hecker > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto > _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
