[Lilux-help] Thawte certificates

[Pascal Steichen]

On Friday 17 September 2004 19:46, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Jang Lemmer wrote:
> > I just found the following site when trying to get a certificate to sign
> > my mails: http://www.thawte.com
> > Does anybody know / use this service? Is there a risk to enter my ID
> > Card No.?
>
> Thawte is one of the bigger names in the certificates business.
> The risk there should be lower than with Verislime, unless they
> got bought up.

Eh Thawte has been bought by Verislime, so there really is no more reason to 
not prefer PGP/GPG ;)

> Why would you want to use them for email signing? It makes sense
> for e-business websites, as most browsers can check those signatures
> right away, but for email I'd prefer PGP/GnuPG.
>
> > If somebody on this list already uses this service, could he/she then
> > notarize my ID?
>
> If you generate your own PGP/GnuPG key, we'll happily sign it.
>
> Here you'll find the presentation that Alexandre Dulaunoy made
> for LiLux a while ago:
>
> http://www.foo.be/gnupg/
>
> Greetings, Eric
>
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