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In practice the public CAs didn't quite work out. www.cacert.org tried it, and was interesting, but didn't work out in the end. Especially now its a bit of a joke with the login page on http and the website certificate not being cross-signed, so you have to accept them explicitly.



cacert.org unnecessarily tried to merge real-world authentication of people with certificates to sites.




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