Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The use of Client is confusing - you actually appear to be generating > what I would call a self-signed server certificate for installation on > one specific webserver. This is for authenticating this signel Server > to clients that browse your website using HTTPS.
That happens to explicitly _be_ the entire context of the article. I have a difficult time believing that anyone could be confused by it: The reader would basically have to be ignoring important parts of the text. > All sounds good for a single self-signed server certificate, but you > would not want to do this if you have 10s of web servers. Indeed. > We use our CA - ie Certificate Authority to sign the web server keys, > as we have lots of web servers. However, my document is about self-signing. Thus the filename, which you may not have noticed. > * Important that during CSR the Common Name match the web server name > that browsers will use. Indeed. I've been intending to revise my article to insert mention of that fact. Thanks for the reminder. -- Cheers, * Contributing Editor, Linux Gazette * Rick Moen -*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://linuxgazette.net/>
