John McAfee launches cert authority but it's got a POODLE problem

Eccentric infosec man John McAfee is now the proprietor of a Certificate Authority named BlackCert. Fresh from a shootout friendly discussion with police over drug and firearm possession, the one-time anti-virus boss has made what is badged as a disruptive play into SSL. BlackCert will offer unlimited use of SSL certificates …

[Anonymous Coward]

2048-bit

u serious

[Ole Juul]

Re: 2048-bit

NIST's deadline for CAs to stop issuing 1024-bit certificates and revoke any below 2048 was December 2013.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: 2048-bit

Exactly. 2048 is too low

[Mark 85]

Should we trust this?

And him? Or assume this is being done for the humor value (his perhaps)?

[Lusty]

Another venture?

We haven't even finished cleaning the McAfee virus software off all the machines on the Internet yet!

[PartTimeLegend]

Re: Another venture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

[Anonymous Coward]

He's doing very well, isn't he, considering he's on bail?

What a dedicated workaholic he is.

[Anonymous Coward]

"BlackCert will offer unlimited use of SSL certificates for basement prices"

Base certificate $60 compared to Namecheap's $9 basic cert

Multi-domain $140 compared to Namecheap's "$29.88

Clearly a new definition of basement prices that I was previously unaware of. Don't know how much the free poodle is worth.

NOTE: I'm not shilling for Namecheap and am not making a penny for saying nice things about them. I (and clients) have been happy customer/s for over a decade now with pretty well no problems. It's (so far) safe to type in domains you're thinking about without them being snatched; they don't bury the stuff you need behind crap trying to sell you things you don't need; and their support is very good. How things should be, but so infrequently are.

The only glitch for me of late is incomplete support for .com.au domains - you can buy them and run them; but can't transfer .com.au domains in.

[Anonymous Coward]

"basement prices designed to undercut the competition"

Can't see how $69 is a basement price to undercut competition. Perhaps a hooker is included with each certificate.

[Mark 85]

Re: "basement prices designed to undercut the competition"

Or perhaps a 2 ounce (57 grams) bag of your drug of choice is included?

[Anonymous Coward]

Their "Contact Us" page is 404...

Seems their website has other problems too. :( The bottom of the front page of their website has the "Contact Us" details like this:

... Contact Our Support!

Clicking that gives:

␣ PAGE NOT FOUND

␣ The requested page could not be found.

The "Support" link in the top right corner goes to the same (non-functional) URL too. Wonder if that means there's no support...?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's he been smoking...

.... to think that this new venture is a disruptive one? It's more expensive than many other vendors and doesn't appear to be offering anything extra let alone revolutionary enough to be disruptive.