Phil's Ramblings

CAcert, at http://www.cacert.org/, is a Certifying Authority which issues SSL certificates. The important thing as opposed to Thawte, Verisign and the rest is that CAcert don’t charge you. At all.

How does that work then? Well, unlike the others, CAcert works on the “web of trust” model. CAcert users whose identity and reliability they are [...]