{"id":65,"date":"2005-09-27T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steenhagen.us\/~jake\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2005-09-27T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T23:31:39","slug":"free-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2005\/09\/free-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Certificates!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">I recently discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/cacert.org\">CAcert.org<\/a>, a group that will give free certifactes not only for email (like <a href=\"http:\/\/thawte.com\">Thawte<\/a>) but also for servers! It&#8217;s even possible to get a code signing certificate and have them sign your PGP key. The downside is that there really aren&#8217;t any major browsers that have their root certificate listed as trusted by default. There are a few linux distributions and a couple of smaller browsers, but nothing mainstream. Even still, it does provide some value over doing everything self signed because anybody who&#8217;s ever added the cacert root certificate to their browser&#8217;s store will automatically be able to see that my certificate is valid. This would not be the case if my certificate was simply self-signed. So, because it&#8217;s free (well, other than the notery fees and postage) I went ahead and used the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.cacert.org\/wiki\/FAQ_2fAssuranceIntroduction#head-d67dd12285d0d49d2d4ebe9ccad60c64c152e603\">Trusted Third Party<\/a> method of getting assured. I&#8217;m now the second listed assurer in the state of Michigan! At some point I need to set up a page with my public keys on it in addition to information about meetings for getting other people assured (and doing <a href=\"http:\/\/sks.keyserver.penguin.de:11371\/pks\/lookup?op=vindex&amp;search=0x3C5B21B591DE47A9\">PGP key<\/a> signing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered CAcert.org, a group that will give free certifactes not only for email (like Thawte) but also for servers! It&#8217;s even possible to get a code signing certificate and have them sign your PGP key. The downside is that there really aren&#8217;t any major browsers that have their root certificate listed as trusted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2005\/09\/free-certificates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free Certificates!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EJi-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}