[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox/Unhosted/PageKite for Access Innovation Prize 2012

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 10 July 2012 13:44, Michiel de Jong <michiel at unhosted.org> wrote:

> i appreciate that we as power users can use those things, but our goal
> with freedombox is to make something for 'normal' people. If you visit
> https://g10code.com/steed.html using for instance Chrome, you get a
> big page saying you are under attack and this domain is unsafe. In
> Firefox it's grey, but it's still a scary page. Did you see that?
>

The above site works fine for me in firefox.

Sorry for being a bit slow, I'm trying to understand the pagekite proposal
better.

Is it based on a user's own certificate, or some other certificate, or a
proxy?


>
> Therefore, even though i'm also very much against the politics of the
> CA system we have, I think these alternatives are not an option (yet)
> (unfortunately).
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:54:01AM +0200, Anders Jackson wrote:
> >
> >> And about certificates, there are not only StartSSL
> >> (https://stratssk.com), which is good but we also have have CAcert
> >> (https://CAcert.org/) which should be a good infrastructure for a
> >> project like ours.
> >
> > Using self-signed certs with a STEED-like trust approach would be
> > fine. Supplementing it with a FOAF web of trust even better.
> >
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