[wellylug] Re: CA-CERT Assurance

[Simon Anderson]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> This leaves me with no form of ID that you require to validate my self
> to get a digital certificate.
> 
> You say, and I quote:
> 
> "CA-Cert is a relatively new project, based on the assumption that
> security should be available to all and that cost does not equate with
> quality."
> 
> "Should be available to all" -
> 
> I would be keen if you could please advise me on other forms of ID that
> one would require that are considered "Valid".

You may have missed this bit, buried in my inital post;

"though there are other methods of proving your identify supported by 
CACert."

Please visit the CA-Cert website. In the "Assurance" section other forms 
of authentication are discussed, I think that you will find one or more 
method agreeable.

> Plus there are some members of the LUG that are too young to drive, are
> you going to discriminate against them too, because they don't have a
> Government issued ID card?

I trust that you didn't really mean to accuse me of dicrimination :)

I think I should point out I do not represent CA-Cert. I am merely someone 
that CA-Cert trusts to authenticate people. Like other Assurers, I offer 
to do this wholly from a sense of altruism.

Regards,
Simon.