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by **Roberto Puzon** » Wed, 12 Nov 1997 04:00:00

Netscape browsers have all the support for adding certification
authority (CA) and trusting any site certficate; it asks what you want
to do, also choosing different level of warning meassage and future
action (besides the bare accetting it).
IE can only use the preloaded CA (anyway the same included in Netscape),
and refuses any other.

So that, with IE, if you are a new CA you must pay MS; if you want use
SSL must pay Cert., Verisign or similar ones.

Am I wrong?
If I'm right, what about antitrust (really appropiate here) authority
actions about this? Have they an e-mail address?

Roberto

by **Holger Rei** » Fri, 14 Nov 1997 04:00:00

Read about the MIME type application/x-x509-ca-cert, which is accepted
by MSIE as well. Search through the MS website, once there was an
article describing the handling.

>Netscape browsers have all the support for adding certification
>authority (CA) and trusting any site certficate; it asks what you want
>to do, also choosing different level of warning meassage and future
>action (besides the bare accetting it).
>IE can only use the preloaded CA (anyway the same included in Netscape),
>and refuses any other.

>So that, with IE, if you are a new CA you must pay MS; if you want use
>SSL must pay Cert., Verisign or similar ones.

>Am I wrong?
>If I'm right, what about antitrust (really appropiate here) authority
>actions about this? Have they an e-mail address?

>Roberto

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