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

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On 06/21/2012 09:54 AM, James Knott wrote:
> Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> > *The bottom line is if you don't want the warnings, can't afford the
> > time to explain them, and have the money, pay a commercial provider and
> > realize you are trusting some unknown corporation (rather than yourself
> > and the combination of CACerts' web of trust).* If you think trusting
> > any corporation is better, just search for "ssl certificates stolen" and
> > you'll see what I mean.
>
> I used to use certificates provided by Thawte. They also had a web of
trust, but their certificates were included in various browsers. It was
also a free service for personal use, until Verisign bought them.
> BTW, Thawte was started by the same guy who started the Ubuntu Linux
distro, Mark Shuttleworth.
>

That's a good example of how a corporation will act for its shareholders
first. I doubt CaCert is going away anytime soon.

F.

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