Re: Self-signed root certificate

2000-09-15 Thread Gary Taylor
There is a typo in my original message. #3 is really 3. openssl req -new -x509 -key demokey.pem -out democert.pem On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:10:59PM -0700, Gary Taylor wrote: > Hello, > > On a server that I support there are three SSL certificate related files. One > of them I

Self-signed root certificate

2000-09-14 Thread Gary Taylor
Hello, On a server that I support there are three SSL certificate related files. One of them I'm trying to understand the need for and how it relates to self signed CA's that I generate for testing using Openssl. The three files have explanations for them in the documentation as follows: ca.pem

Bit size, keys and certificates

2000-09-11 Thread Gary Taylor
I have some newbie questions that I'm trying to get a handle on. I understand there are software products sold that offer 0, 40, and 128 bit encryption. I also understand than when you talk about keys that the strength is measured in bit size. From what I've read a common size is 512bit and