Netscape refusing RSA certs

1999-12-07 Thread Terrell Larson
Here's a weird one: A friend with a hotmail account tried to access same from Netscape 4.6 Lo and behold the site: www.hotmail.com offered a cert from RSA which netscape said it did not recognize as coming from a recognized CA. I checked this a couple times... We accepted the cert eventual

Idiot's summary of [Re: Certificate chaining]

1999-12-07 Thread Andrew Cooke
Jan Meijer wrote: > You could have a point here. I was fooling around with a test certificate > that is signed by our root CA (the SURFnet PCA). With this test-certificate > I signed client certs and I had problems verifying the client certs. The > troubles went away after including the PCA cer

How do I download a self-signed CA cert into IE/OE?

1999-12-07 Thread Bruce Stephens
Suppose I want to get IE to trust a new CA for signing user certificates (for S/MIME in OE or something). How do I reliably do that? i.e., what format should I put the certificate in, what file extension should it have, and what MIME type should I have Apache give it? It ought to be easy: I oug

Re: SSL

1999-12-07 Thread dreamwvr
hi, better yet get linux.. any linux and save yourself the cost of the os period.. comes with apache as well as can pull down open-ssl thanks to the open src and plunk it on your linux box. then just goto any number of rpm or *.tar.gz sites and build the source installing apache-ssl thats abou

Re: Certificate chaining

1999-12-07 Thread Jan Meijer
> Check out the docs in the latest snapshot, particularly the verify and > x509 commands. They explain how things operate in the snapshot and > pretty much how 0.9.5 will do things. Thanks. Think I can find the time somewhere this week :) When the organisational reshuffles are over and I'm stil