CA Cert

Oh man, if they could pull this off, that would be so great. It causes me physical pain to have to shell out $100's to VeriSign for certs.

Their website seems very vague if you don't know why you're there, and information (such as "where do I find assurers/how does one become one?) don't have easily accessible answers...if they want to garner public support their site needs to be much more informative.<p>Wow, I've spent way too much time in web dev...the first thing I do when I visit a webpage is consider its usability...

I use their SSL certs for domains. Works great. I also use their personal S/MIME certs. Here's one site using a CAcert SSL certificate. Hostgator only charged 10 dollars to install it. <a href="https://16systems.com/main.html" rel="nofollow">https://16systems.com/main.html</a>

Uh, hello? Extortionate certificate fees aren't a technical problem. It's the "getting inclusion into Internet Explorer" problem that actually matters. What possible evidence do these people have that they'd be successful with this?

Something about this doesn't add up.<p>There are bound to be non-trivial administrative costs and considerations involved with being a provider. How do you cover all sorts of complex admin and legal requirements with a free model?