[PD] post signed puredata.info cert

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sun May 29 20:37:24 CEST 2011


On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 21:14 +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> hi
> 
> On 05/28/2011 07:06 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, since I'm going a lot of security stuff, I'm TLS wary.  Could you
> > post a PGP-signed email of the MD5 and SHA1 of the puredata.info cert
> > onto pd-list or pd-announce?
> 
> sure,
> 
> MD5 : b84cf6b592ad888a1b9c3a3c88093a2f
> SHA1: f78bba07c44faae4d2e0e0c4932880d5b21a9f1f
> 
> however, note that:
> the puredata.info certificates are signed by cacert.org [1], so trusting
> the cacert.org authority would help establish a web of trust (similar to
> gpg) for free server certificates.

Thanks!

That I know, but TLS certs can be such a pain to install on some
platforms that its worth it just verifying the fingerprint instead.
Ever try to get the cacert signing cert to work with Chrome on
GNU/Linux?  Painful.

.hc
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