I've written about interfaces before, orat least what I mean by the term (and how it relates to inheritance ). To summarize, 'interfaces' are a way offormally expressing 'is-a' relationships; when you say that a class or atype implements the String interface, you mean that it is a string.

One of the things that jogged my mind about the whole issue was Go , which has things that it calls 'interfaces' (okay,technically they're called interface

Shortly after I wrote my first ipsCA entry , Igot a comment on the entry recommending a specific other SSL vendor.At first this didn't strike me as unusual; it was the kind of helpfulnote that might be left by one of my readers (or just someone who sawmy blog entry on Planet Sysadmin ). ButI have a hair trigger with spam, one that not infrequently makes meunreasonably suspicious, so I ran the poster's IP address through areverse DNS lookup just to make myself

Some bits on various aspects of the ipsCA root certificate failure .

First, I've seen comments that the new ipsCA CA rootcertificate should be included in the next update ofFirefox. However, I've now found the Mozilla bug about this (via JeffBallard ), and it makesit seem very unlikely that the root certificate is going to be includedin the near future (especially as ipsCA apparently had problems evenbefore this). Interested people can watch Mozilla's CA:Schedule wikipage .

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