Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Signing Documents with a personal Certificate

[James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>]

Steve Edmonds wrote:
> I think firefox throws a tiz because it is a self signed cert (they 
> certify their own certificate).
> I get the same thing for the self signed cert I use on our web server 
> (company access only) and on my router.
> steve

The whole point of certificates is trust.  If anyone can issue a self 
signed certificate, then it's essentially useless for a signature and I 
wouldn't want to trust it for encryption either.  I used to use Thawte 
certificates, with their "web of trust".  I had to verify my ID to 
qualify my certificate for signatures.

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