Re: certificate server (ejbca)

2003-11-05 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:21:14 +0100 (CET), Henrik Andreasson wrote: >Here comes answers from the main developer Tomas Gustavsson > >//Henrik Andreasson > >>>If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations >>>too) check out ejbca, build on Enterprise Java Beans. >>> >>>ejbca.sf

Re: certificate server (ejbca)

2003-11-05 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:21:14 +0100 (CET), Henrik Andreasson wrote: >Here comes answers from the main developer Tomas Gustavsson > >//Henrik Andreasson > >>>If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations >>>too) check out ejbca, build on Enterprise Java Beans. >>> >>>ejbca.sf

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread seph
> An alternative would be to use mod_rewrite on the server and rewrite all > requests for xxx.com to www.xxx.com, but I haven't got around to this > yet, hopefully it will be a simple thing. easy to do for http servers, several people have sent the rewrite snippets. not really possible for ssl tho

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread seph
> An alternative would be to use mod_rewrite on the server and rewrite all > requests for xxx.com to www.xxx.com, but I haven't got around to this > yet, hopefully it will be a simple thing. easy to do for http servers, several people have sent the rewrite snippets. not really possible for ssl tho

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting myself: > Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * 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. Reviewing my article, I find

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting myself: > Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * 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. Reviewing my article, I find

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Roland Mas
Nikolai Buer, 2003-11-04 14:50:28 +0100 : > An alternative would be to use mod_rewrite on the server and rewrite all > requests for xxx.com to www.xxx.com, but I haven't got around to this > yet, hopefully it will be a simple thing. ServerName www.domain.tld ServerAlias domain.tld RewriteE

Re: certificate server (ejbca)

2003-11-04 Thread Henrik Andreasson
Here comes answers from the main developer Tomas Gustavsson //Henrik Andreasson >>If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations >>too) check out ejbca, build on Enterprise Java Beans. >> >>ejbca.sf.net / http://sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca > Can you put some number

Re: mod_rewrite for no www. prefix (was: certificate server)

2003-11-04 Thread Ronny Adsetts
Nikolai Buer said the following on 04/11/03 13:46: An alternative would be to use mod_rewrite on the server and rewrite all requests for xxx.com to www.xxx.com, but I haven't got around to this yet, hopefully it will be a simple thing. This does it for me: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Roland Mas
Nikolai Buer, 2003-11-04 14:50:28 +0100 : > An alternative would be to use mod_rewrite on the server and rewrite all > requests for xxx.com to www.xxx.com, but I haven't got around to this > yet, hopefully it will be a simple thing. ServerName www.domain.tld ServerAlias domain.tld RewriteE

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Nikolai Buer
> * Important that during CSR the Common Name match the web server name that > browsers will use: eg www.xxx.com otherwise clients will all display a warning > that the server certificate does not match the name of the server. Actually that's quite annoying. Some people like to skip www in the nam

Re: certificate server (ejbca)

2003-11-04 Thread Henrik Andreasson
Here comes answers from the main developer Tomas Gustavsson //Henrik Andreasson >>If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations >>too) check out ejbca, build on Enterprise Java Beans. >> >>ejbca.sf.net / http://sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca > Can you put some number

Re: mod_rewrite for no www. prefix (was: certificate server)

2003-11-04 Thread Ronny Adsetts
Nikolai Buer said the following on 04/11/03 13:46: An alternative would be to use mod_rewrite on the server and rewrite all requests for xxx.com to www.xxx.com, but I haven't got around to this yet, hopefully it will be a simple thing. This does it for me: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Nikolai Buer
> * Important that during CSR the Common Name match the web server name that > browsers will use: eg www.xxx.com otherwise clients will all display a warning > that the server certificate does not match the name of the server. Actually that's quite annoying. Some people like to skip www in the nam

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
any policy precludes J2EE on any server, even the CA server, so I would need some powerful arguments even to give it a spin... - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:16 PM Subject: Re: certificate server > - O

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > mmm - so the narrative talks about SERVER certs but the actual commands use > CLIENT... the SERVER key, csr and crt are called Client.key Client.csr > Client.crt - wouldn't it just be clearer to call them Server.key Server.csr > and > Server.crt? Beats the he

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
- Original Message - From: "Henrik Andreasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: Re: certificate server > > If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations > too) check out ejbca, build

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
- Original Message - From: "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:50 AM Subject: Re: certificate server > Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > The use of Client is confusing - you actually appear to be generating > &g

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Henrik Andreasson
If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations too) check out ejbca, build on Enterprise Java Beans. ejbca.sf.net / http://sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca //Henrik Andreasson

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
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 HTT

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
- Original Message - From: "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Re: certificate server > > We'll generate three files, and end up using two of them. First, we > generate the RSA keypair (client.key,

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
any policy precludes J2EE on any server, even the CA server, so I would need some powerful arguments even to give it a spin... - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:16 PM Subject: Re: certi

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > mmm - so the narrative talks about SERVER certs but the actual commands use > CLIENT... the SERVER key, csr and crt are called Client.key Client.csr > Client.crt - wouldn't it just be clearer to call them Server.key Server.csr and > Server.crt? Beats the hell

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
- Original Message - From: "Henrik Andreasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: Re: certificate server > > If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations > too) check

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
- Original Message - From: "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:50 AM Subject: Re: certificate server > Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > The use of Client is confusing - you actually appear

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Henrik Andreasson
If your out to get a larger CA server (works for smaller installations too) check out ejbca, build on Enterprise Java Beans. ejbca.sf.net / http://sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca //Henrik Andreasson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
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 HTT

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
- Original Message - From: "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Re: certificate server > > We'll generate three files, and end up using two of them. First, we > generate the

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread WIAME Jean-Robert - REM0VE-N0-1SPAM
I will be happy to participate, until now, I have writed an personnal how-to (in french) I use only openssl for my certificates managment -- /°> May the GNU/Linux be with you, young Jedi! (V)_ delete remove_NO_1SPAM from email for reply Le mar 04/11/2003 à 10:43, Jeff a écrit : > > I operate

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you understand how a CA works, then its easy peasy. If not, you > will need to understand how a CA works it before you dive in. > > The documentation is poor, and last I looked, there were not many > examples - it seems to still have a whiff of the arcane.

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread WIAME Jean-Robert - REM0VE-N0-1SPAM
a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) > > for debian, and where I can find it? > > You might want to take a look at pyca, it is apt-get installable. > > Another package I know of is openCA (www.openca.org), but that is not in > the packages list. > > Grx HdV >

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread WIAME Jean-Robert - REM0VE-N0-1SPAM
I will be happy to participate, until now, I have writed an personnal how-to (in french) I use only openssl for my certificates managment -- /°> May the GNU/Linux be with you, young Jedi! (V)_ delete remove_NO_1SPAM from email for reply Le mar 04/11/2003 à 10:43, Jeff a écrit : > > I operate

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
eft in it] HIH, Jeff - Original Message - From: "rico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:43 AM Subject: certificate server Hello Do you know if exist a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) for debian, and where I can find it? Thank you very much!

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you understand how a CA works, then its easy peasy. If not, you > will need to understand how a CA works it before you dive in. > > The documentation is poor, and last I looked, there were not many > examples - it seems to still have a whiff of the arcane.

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread HdV
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, rico wrote: > Hello > > Do you know if exist a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) for > debian, and where I can find it? You might want to take a look at pyca, it is apt-get installable. Another package I know of is openCA (www.openca.org), but

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread WIAME Jean-Robert - REM0VE-N0-1SPAM
a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) for > > debian, and where I can find it? > > You might want to take a look at pyca, it is apt-get installable. > > Another package I know of is openCA (www.openca.org), but that is not in > the packages list. > > Grx

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff
eft in it] HIH, Jeff - Original Message - From: "rico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:43 AM Subject: certificate server Hello Do you know if exist a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) for debian, and

certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread rico
Hello   Do you know if exist a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) for debian, and where I can find it?   Thank you very much!

Re: certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread HdV
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, rico wrote: > Hello > > Do you know if exist a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) for > debian, and where I can find it? You might want to take a look at pyca, it is apt-get installable. Another package I know of is openCA (www.openca.org), but

certificate server

2003-11-04 Thread rico
Hello   Do you know if exist a package that implements a certificate server (PKI) for debian, and where I can find it?   Thank you very much!