[olug] CA Cert Web Of Trust

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 20:59:07 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Dave Rowe<dave at roweware.com> wrote:
>
> Rob Townley wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Shawn L. Djernes<shawn at djernes.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Has anyone thought about having a "Signing Party" as part of a meeting?
>>
>> CA Cert http://cacert.org provides **FREE** SSL Certificates, but to
>> be able to have a certificate valid for a year you must have a WOT
>> (Web of Trust) level of 50 or above.
>>
>> Does anyone know anyone (besides me) who is a member of CA Cert?  Do
>> they have an Assurance Level to Verify Others?
>>
>> Also how about signing of GPG Keys?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shawn
>>
>
>> Sometime earlier this year, a member posted that he found two notaries
>> in the metro area that are in wot and/or can sign for thawte.  A wot
>> signing party at a meeting would be cool and we should invite the
>> notaries.  Anybody check into the cost of having the notary(ies) come
>> to a meeting and sign certs or sigs.
>
> I asked about the Thawte signing.  The notaries are listed on the Thawte
> site - and none had a listed fee, so I think they'd do it for free (or
> beer - in exchange for gas :) )

OK, so i wasn't totally off after all, thanks.

>
> Dave
>
>



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