Hal Merritt writes: >IMHO, the biggest single challenge is certificate management. Certificates >have a pretty steep learning curve. As with any encryption solution, the >actual encryption is trivial but the key (certificate) management is a killer.
It's exactly the same conceptual learning curve you'd have for enabling HTTPS in an arbitrary Web server, and an awful lot of IT workers manage that. Frankly what most people do is to go buy an SSL/TLS server certificate signed by one of the well-known certificate authorities (in the desired file format) then simply go install it. Meaning, they probably don't understand what they're doing, they just do it. If you want to understand how TLS and SSL work, yes, you'll need a little more time. :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
