On 12/17/2008 08:54 AM, Nelson B Bolyard:
One of the reasons I asked the question is that MS Word files present a
problem for me.
I use OpenOffice, and you?
Kathleen could have published those files as ODT, but I suspect that for
the benefit of all users, she preferred to publish DOC files so
everybody could read them, also those which DO use MS software for this
purpose. Perhaps she should publish them as PDF in the future.
But I did dig up the URLs for the 4 CA certs, and examined those certs.
Each of them has a separate subject name, public key, subject key ID,
authority key ID, and of course validity period.
As suspected and indicated in the document.
So, My advice is: just say no. Don't take on the burden of adding a
new root CA cert every year when there is no good need. Please consider
this an objection to including those roots in the root CA list.
As indicated earlier, I think it unreasonable as well. And this is
really unfortunate, since it could have done a lot of good for S/MIME,
specially when considering the high usage/market share of Mozilla
products in Germany and the chance to have some 40 million potential
users encrypting mail.
I will wait for their response at the bug and examine the regulation of
the law they referred to. But most likely it won't change anything in
the end. It's hard to serve two masters in this case...
--
Regards
Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd.
Jabber: start...@startcom.org
Blog: https://blog.startcom.org
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