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Having more assurance points allows users more privileges such as writing a name in the certificate and longer expiration times on certificates. A user with at least 100 assurance points is a Prospective Assurer, and may—after passing an Assurer Challenge—verify other users; more assurance points
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was established to facilitate communication among browser vendors and Certificate Authorities. Mozilla's advice was incorporated into "baseline requirements" used by most major browser vendors. Progress towards meeting these requirements can hardly be expected in the near future.
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To create higher-trust certificates, users can participate in a web of trust system whereby users physically meet and verify each other's identities. CAcert maintains the number of
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for each account. Assurance points can be gained through various means, primarily by having one's identity physically verified by users classified as "Assurers".
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do not automatically trust certificates issued by CAcert. Thus, users receive an "untrusted certificate" warning upon trying to view a website providing
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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certificate policy at the time. Eventually, Mozilla developed a policy which required CAcert to improve their management system and conduct
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As of 2021, the following operating systems or distributions have an optional package with the CAcert root certificate:
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Since October 2005, CAcert offers Class 1 and Class 3 root certificates. Class 3 is a high-security subset of Class 1.
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are not included in the most widely deployed certificate stores and has to be added by its customers. As of 2021, most
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The ca_root_ns port basically makes no guarantees other than that the certificates comes from the Mozilla project.
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As of Feb 2022, the following operating systems or distributions include the CAcert root certificate by default:
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certificate issued by CAcert, or view emails authenticated with CAcert certificates in
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and documents; and to authenticate and authorize user connections to websites via
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Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing, and Integrating Directory Services
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became involved. He served as board member and, in 2008, as a president.
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included CAcert's root certificate but removed it in 2008, following
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As of 2021, CAcert's web of trust has over 380,000 verified users.
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Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing
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allow the Assurer to assign more assurance points to others.
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Turnbull, James; Matotek, Dennis; Lieverdink, Peter (2009).
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Pro Open Source Mail: building an enterprise mail solution
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Burns, Bryan; Killion, Dave; Beauchesne, Nicolas (2007).
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Discussion for inclusion of CAcert root certificate in
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notability guidelines for companies and organizations
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