[Enigmail] Setting trust levels for unknown keys

[John W. Moore III]

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Ayush Sharma wrote:

> I have absolutely no idea about this stuff Robert (or shall I use Mr.
> Hansen?), but just asking, shouldn't CACert go through some kind of
> "stringent" (LOL) tests to ensure that it doesn't goof up down the road,
> something like it does "what it should" with a success rate more than
> some threshold limit, before it gets recognized by browsers as a
> trustworthy Root CA by default (and I guess that's why it's NOT accepted
> to date by firefox), while Thawte is.

An Audit is in progress at present.  Thawte, VeriSign and Others are
included because they pay a hefty inclusion fee.  At least they do to
M$.  Most other Browsers available merely include the same ones that M$
does.  Most likely the first Browser that will include CAcert will be
those offered by Mozilla.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Thursday 30 Apr 2009, 14:52  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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