[LinuxUsers] today (PKI / CAcerts) / topics for next meeting?

[Roger E. Rustad, Jr.]

Paul Saenz wrote:
> Sorry I missed this months meeting, I wish I could have made it,
> but I couldn't. I for one am very interested in what you have sugested
> for the future.

Too bad you missed it, Paul.  We had a good discussion.

In case you missed what I was saying, if you fill out the paperwork on 
CAcert, bring some ID (the more the better), then you can get a CAcert 
issued to you, which is sort of like having your own SSL cert to verify 
that your host is what it says it is.

If you want to know more about certificates in general and why they're 
important, check out these two pages

https://help.riseup.net/security/certificates/
http://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/tls-centralization/

In other words, instead of paying $1000+ per certificate, you can have 
them issued to you for free via CA (Certificate Authority).  Read the 
bottom of that last URL, and you'll see why one might want to use a 
system that's not the big guys that require lots of money.

HTH!