delegating SSL certificates

[John Levine]

>| Presumably the value they add is that they keep browsers from popping
>| up scary warning messages....
>Apple's Mail.app checks certs on SSL-based mail server connections.
>It has the good - but also bad - feature that it *always* asks for
>user approval if it gets a cert it doesn't like.

Good point -- other mail programs such as Thunderbird also pop up
the scary warnings.  I've paid the $15 protection money for the certs
on my mail servers.

R's,
John

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