At 03:09 PM 6/12/00, you wrote:
>Interesting...  I don't quite understand what the preloaded root certs
>have as extra value.

The ONLY reason for e-commerce folks to sign up with a Root Cert CA (like Verisign or 
Thawte) is to prevent the nasty messages when a user initiates an SSL connection. 
Other than that, I, for one, will continue to use our self-generated certs <g>.

        Lee
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