Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

2000-01-07 Thread Dr. Greg Quinn
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Michael Sierchio wrote: > jon hale wrote: > > > > I am curious about the expiration this patent. Does it definitely expire? > > September 20, 2000. I recall someone a while back posting to this list that it actually expires in October and not September as commonly thought;

Re: Everything needed to run secure webserver !

1999-12-27 Thread Dr. Greg Quinn
http://www.modssl.org On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Leland V. Lammert wrote: > At 03:54 PM 12/24/99 , you wrote: > >Could someone tell me , or point me to a website , that tells you everything you >need to install to run a secure webserver on port 513 I think it is. I've seen this >website and have do

Re: openssl deperately needs some intro docs

1999-12-22 Thread Dr. Greg Quinn
Mike; I know it seems a bit upside-down at the moment; really cool software and pretty much no documentation except for terse function calls; part of the reason for this is that many people who use the stuff are used to finding their way around the technical side; another is that you will find a n

Re: Seeking officers for Free-software-friendly CA

1999-12-22 Thread Dr. Greg Quinn
I think a free CA would be great. I really wish there was an acadmic institution initiative. A big limitation as far as I can see would be getting certs pre-installed into web browsers. The chance of either MS or netscape doing this would be close to none. If my experience is anything to go by, as

Re: OpenSSL+Apache

1999-10-29 Thread Dr. Greg Quinn
I just want to add that there's nothing to stop you from loading a CA authority of your own creation into your web browser too, (adding to the likes of Verisign and Thawte) and then you won't see this message. > You got that message because you generated a test certificate. You are > not a Certi

Single line certificate?

1999-10-20 Thread Dr. Greg Quinn
Hi; I've set up openssl on a web server and have used a local CA to create some Netscape client certificates; I would like to do basic authorization access on my web server using the client certs, but the docs say that basic authorization uses the name in a "one line" version of the certificate; I