After about one to two years the Mozilla project released a new policy, but Groth is hesitant commenting about Mozilla and Firefox.

"As for Microsoft there are a number of formal ways to gain inclusion [into IE] and we are exploring different avenues at this point in time, although people with experience on this are more than welcome to join our policy discussion mailing list to help out and learn more," he said.

Even with the wide-scale adoption of free certificates, Groth believes the Internet is unlikely to become an inherently more secure place.

"Some trojans have shown in the past often technology isn't always the weakest link [so] education has a big part in helping the Internet become a much better place, but this is a very long and very tough task," he said.

"More widespread use of encryption is essential, however, with governments and businesses increasingly monitoring all forms of communications, and we all would be outraged if they did the same thing to letters and packages sent via Australia Post."