Re: FreeSSL experience

Colin McKinnon <colin.thisisnotmysurname@ntlworld.deletemeunlessU RaBot.com> wrote in message news:<gaJ7c.165$7%.17@newsfe1-win>...
> Kyler Laird spilled the following:
>
> > I needed a cheap SSL certificate quickly last weekend. I'd been
> > meaning to try FreeSSL
> > http://freessl.com/
> > for awhile, so I decided to give it a whirl.
> >
>
> Sounded interesting, but unless they can get their CA cert into browsers it
> doesn't seem to offer any advantage over using your own CA.
>
> It certainly isn't listed in any of the bowsers I use, and I don't recall
> seeing it in the standard bundle from Microsoft.

For what it is worth, they are using the UTN: the UserTrust Network.
It is there in Mozilla.

Edwin

Edwin Groothuis spilled the following:

>
> For what it is worth, they are using the UTN: the UserTrust Network.
> It is there in Mozilla.
>

Ahh. Ta,

C.

Colin McKinnon <colin.thisisnotmysurname@ntlworld.deletemeunlessU RaBot.com> wrote in message news:<lLhfc.368$74.296@newsfe1-win>...
> Edwin Groothuis spilled the following:
>
> >
> > For what it is worth, they are using the UTN: the UserTrust Network.
> > It is there in Mozilla.
> >
>
> Ahh. Ta,
>
> C.
freessl.com and sslreview.com are owned by the same person. Do a
whois on both sites. They are owned by Christopher Bailey. Judging
from his email, and doing a search on the directory at emory.edu, I
believe he is a student there.