CAcert System Admins discussion list

[Daniel Black <daniel AT cacert.org>]

On Tuesday 22 September 2009 03:16:56 Peter Williams wrote:
> If I were on CACert board, Id be inviting a friend to have CAcert also run
> an openid gateway server

We've asked before:
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert/2009-07/msg00082.html

Hey Philipp - do you have time now? Anyone else?

> - an asserting party that basically converts the
> presentation of a client cert by a user (back to CAcert) into an
>  alternative bit format that is then consumed by sites adopting the
>  openid-variant of SSO "token passing".
staying standards compliant is a key to adoption.

> A coherent position for CAcert to take would ve to induce OTHER
> **asserting** parties to rely on CAcert's  openid assertion (which are
> generated on the fly as gatewayed versions of CAcert's own act of relying
>  on is own issued certs).

that was the general plan.

Thanks for bringing this up Peter,

PS - subject of code signing had nothing to do with your post and its not 
really a policy issue. It just needs someone to do it.

-- 
Daniel Black
Infrastructure Administrator
CAcert

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