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CAcert: Digital certificates for free

 Well, what's natural turns out to shift like the sand on a Cape Cod bayside beach when the tide goes out. You can get wireless Internet free, if you happen to live near one of the many municipal hotspots being installed around the world. Competition in domain names is growing, and costs are correspondingly coming just a bit closer to the costs of maintaining the DNS infrastructure (which is quite small). Now, thanks to CAcert, everyone can get a free digital certificate signed by a global player. [more in O'Reilly's Andy Oram article]

BTW, I'm currently reading Bruce Sterling's “Distraction: A Novel” and I'm looking forward to see the impact that this system may have in real adoption of PKI systems for end users.

Print | posted on Sunday, July 04, 2004 12:32 PM | Filed Under [ Personal ]

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