Kyle Hamilton wrote, On 2008-12-30 04:13 PST: > (in fact, it wasn't until a LOT of people got infuriated at Netscape > over the Verisign tax that other CAs were even allowed into the > program
Do you have any evidence to support that claim? SSL2 was introduced in Navigator 2, and there were many CAs in place in Navigator 3. > -- but every one of them was vetted to the same extent Verisign was. Yes. Each CA that was willing to pay the price for admission got its certs admitted. That price was widely believed to be USD 100K. This was a large source of funding for the development of SSL. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto