Re: Self-signed certificate behavior.

[Karl Berry]

    To all: does anybody know of an open certificate authority which issues 
    certificates for free?  There is really need for such service?

There are nontrivial costs involved with being a certificate authority.
I doubt there will ever be a validated CA that issues certs for no money
and that is included in the root certs of, say, Firefox.

General: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority#Providers

Current root authorities in Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/included/

List of providers:
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Security/Public_Key_Infrastructure/PKIX/Tools_and_Services/Third_Party_Certificate_Authorities//
(The "SimpleAuthority" provider listed there is actually crippled
proprietary software and not included in the browser root certs anyway.

karl