Kurt Seifried wrote: >> Is this another 1st of April joke? At least your timing is a bit >> questionable ;-) > > No this is not an April fools joke. The PDF at Linux Magazine is what > will be in the print copy (due out in 3 weeks I believe). The reality > is you can trivially buy SSL certificates for websites you don't > control, easiest way is google for a free webmail provider, register > an account like ssladmin or ssladministrator and spend $79 and in > 20-30 minutes you'll have a certificate. I sent the emails I received > from RapidSSL at the account to provide proof/confirmation as I am > unwilling to do something rude (and possibly illegal) like sending out > the private key publicly. > > The reality is anyone can verify this, you need to simply google a > webmail provider and spend $79.
You could also spend ~5000 EUR and have your own corporate sub-CA issuing certs for whatever DNS name you want. Ciao, Michael. -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
