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On 2006-08-24T21:57+0100 Simon Waters wrote: > Still all credence to the computer industry for having moved from > selling lovingly handcrafted big numbers for small bucks (software), to > small, machine generated numbers for bigger bucks. Call it innovation ;) Yes, certificate authorities (CA) with a cert shipped by M$ basically get a license to print money. This is how Mark Shuttleworth's Thawte did it. Lucky guy. :) I'm also very wary of how companies pitch their "secure" CA products for government identity schemes. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html