on 2/9/02 12:00 AM, Aakash Malhotra at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks David for your prompt reply > > I will attempt to download apache for windows and try it. regarding > certificates, is there a way to do it in windows ? any howto's or man pages ? > > thanks again david > > -aakash
I've had good luck generating certificates on a box running NT 4, for use with our web server (Win2K w/IIS). Someday I'll figure out how to get 'em to stop warning everyone they're roll yer owns too. Unless JB's batch files can do that? Can you even do that? Besides faking it's from verity or some such? (Netscape on the mac doesn't get along well with my certs because of this. Oh well. Least I can mandate a browser. Still bugs me tho...) Never mind. Just checked, and the latest version of Netscape Communicator for the mac doesn't choke on my certificates anymore! YAY! Just because I'm curious... I know you pay the 'official' signers money, and mostly that's for verification of identity... is there something like the deal with pgp and the 'open' key-servers? I guess SSL where the connection is secure without HAVING to have a 'verified' identity? I'm probably way off here as I'm just a dabbler at the most, in both SSL and PGP (crypto in general). Heck, I was giddy when openSSL compiled without errors on the first attempt (Props on that). And when I generated my first loadable cert... that was sheer joy. There's just something that bothers me about having to pay people to be 'trusted'. Maybe you don't have to. Guess yall are the ones who'd know, right? Am I missing some obvious bit of whatnot? (quite possible. and likely, even) Are there public [trusted] cert-signers? Or does that defeat the whole idea with SSL? Apologies for improper terminology and the like. Also this is just idle wondering on my part, that I'll surely get the answers to when I have to have 'em. Maybe even before. These aren't burning questions, and private reply's are kewl. Mostly I just wanted to say 'works great on my Win boxen', and give some thanks/props. (; ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
