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CAcert.org

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CAcert.org is a community-driven certificate authority that issues free X.509 public key certificates. CAcert.org relies heavily on automation and therefore issues only Domain-validated certificates (and not Extended validation or Organization Validation certificates).

Key facts

Company.name
CAcert Inc.
Company.type
Nonprofit organization
Company.founder
Duane Groth
Company.location_city
Geneva
Company.location_country
Switzerland
Company.industry
Certificate authority
Company.area_served
World

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • CAcert Inc. Association
  • Certificate Trust status
  • Web browsers
  • Operating systems
  • Web of trust
  • Root certificate descriptions
  • See also
  • Further reading
  • References

CAcert.org is a community-driven certificate authority that issues free X.509 public key certificates. CAcert.org relies heavily on automation and therefore issues only Domain-validated certificates (and not Extended validation or Organization Validation certificates).

These certificates can be used to digitally sign and encrypt email; encrypt code and documents; and to authenticate and authorize user connections to websites via TLS/SSL.

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