[$] Debian and CAcert

CAcert is an SSL/TLS certificate authority (CA) that seeks to be community driven and to provide certificates for free (gratis), which stands in sharp contrast to the other existing CAs. But, in order for CAcert-signed certificates to be accepted by web browsers and other TLS-using applications, the CAcert root certificate must be included in the "trusted certificate store" that operating systems use to determine which CAs to trust. For the most part, CAcert has found it difficult to get included in the distribution-supplied trusted root stores; the discussion in a recently closed Debian bug highlights the problem.

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