Those of us that are unhappy with the existing Web of Trust projects that are out there, especially those that are involved with Certificate Authorities are creating a new one. This is mostly due to the fact that the others are broken beyond repair. StartCom is a CA that is already, or soon will be, included into most of the major browsers and Operating Systems. They have done a spectacular job of getting organized and doing everything that is necessary to become trusted; however, due to the fact that their CPS states that all certificates need to be insured, creating trust based on the word of someone other than the staff at StartCom just hasn’t been acceptable.
So starting now, we are going to try to fix the problems that plague other WoTs, and create a policy that will allow people and companies to be validated in such a way that the validation would hold up, not only for insurance but in a court of law as well. On staff we have a Notary Public, several Notary/Assurers from other CAs, the person responsible for writing the StartCom CPS, and we have the support of the CA.
