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CAcert - FREE digital certificates for everyone.

| Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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Welcome to the CAcert - FREE digital certificates for everyone.

Traditionally vendors seeking to have their root certificates included in browsers (directly or via the underlying OS infrastructure like Safari via OS X's Keychain) would have to seek an expensive Webtrust audit (~$75,000 up-front plus ~$10,000 per year). While achievable for commercial CAs who typically charge per certificate year, this is typically out of the reach of non-profit organisations like CAcert.

CAcert's primary focus and largest challenge at present is to meet the fair but firm policy of Mozilla with a view to inclusion in their products, including the popular Firefox browser (see Mozilla bug 215243). To that end an Audit is underway (you can refer to the AuditToDo list for progress and our Certificate Policy Statement is being refined at CPS (many thanks to Christian Barmala's work on this topic and for everyone who has contributed to the shaping of these policies).

Read more: CACert.org

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