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Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site
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Sylvain Beucler |
Subject: |
Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:51:17 +0200 |
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:44:01PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Hello Karl,
>
> Thank you for going through all the background on this.
>
> What does that refer to? Did Karl send you something he
> did not send to me? I would like to see it.
Karl had sent the following which you received:
> That would be ideal, but the CAcert web site does not show signs of
> substantial progress.
>
> CAcert withdrew their request for inclusion in Mozilla in April 2007,
> stating they could not satisfactorily complete the required audit.
> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215243#c158) The person
> who was the "Auditor" was one Ian Grigg, who then resigned in June 2009
> without the audit being completed. I see no information about a
> replacement.
>
> According to http://wiki.cacert.org/AuditToDo (the place that
> http://wiki.cacert.org/InclusionStatus tells you to look), there are
> many large-scale tasks that have to be addressed before they can
> satisfactorily complete an audit, some of which have been pending for
> years.
>
> A message from Ian dated yesterday
> https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-board/2009-09/msg00333.html is
> about the structure of the audit organization. The fact that they are
> still debating at this level, and more importantly the lack of any
> recent information on their status pages, makes me think they are very
> far from inclusion.
>
> After this research today, my feeling is that we will be waiting for
> some additional amount of time measured in years, and that there is a
> significant probability that they will never succeed.
>
> If there is more positive news about CAcert inclusion in Mozilla, I
> would be glad to hear it.
>
> karl
>
> P.S. Jon: it's not about money.
Incidentally, we completed the documentation work on the login page,
pointing to http://savannah.gnu.org/tls/tutorial/ and
http://savannah.gnu.org/tls/ .
--
Sylvain
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Jon, 2009/10/12
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Richard Stallman, 2009/10/13
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site,
Sylvain Beucler <=
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Jon, 2009/10/15
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Richard Stallman, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Matt Lee, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Sylvain Beucler, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Yavor Doganov, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Matt Lee, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Yavor Doganov, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Matt Lee, 2009/10/16
- Re: [Savannah-help-public] missing SSL cert from savannah site, Yavor Doganov, 2009/10/16