George Pavlenko wrote:
> Dear friends!
>
> At the address http://ca.ukrtrans.biz/ yesterday has opened a new service
> which gives you a possibility free of charge to receive digital
> certificates
> of various types.
>
> We invite you free of charge to take advantage of our services. We will be
> glad to hear your opinion on our service and with a great attention we will
> listen to all your remarks and wishes.
This is NOT a pro-spamming newsgroup. Oh yeah, like anyone is going to
trust a brand new cert authority, and one in the Ukraine. If users
aren't going to get one from a respected 3rd party, they'll probably
generate their own [internal] certs.
If they're offering EVERY cert type then I suspect they're just trying
to drum up enough business to establish a large customer base along with
ironing out their system and then they'll yank away from their
freeloaders by charging for that service or offering a "discount" to the
existing freeloaders. It would be tested for maybe 2 years and then,
poof, it goes commercial.
I wouldn't waste my time on a "free" cert authority who can't even
bother to get someone above a high-schooler just playing with HTML to
design their web site. They choose not to waste any effort in
translating their Russian languaged web site (
http://www.ukrtrans.biz/)
to English or to other languages. Peculiar that their Russian site
needs to have a Malaysian web designer. Sorry, but I can't read old
Latin in their About page, and the online Latin->English translators
don't handle deliberate misspellings (but what it could translate seemed
more about sensual delight than a technical brief on a cert project).