np. i was just the messenger. a bunch of people on the CF team
contributed all of the info.

mike chambers

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A. Kruger - CFG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:54 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MACROMEDIA PEOPLE....RE: instant SSL HELP!!!!!
> 
> 
> Thanks Mike - that's one for the archive.  No doubt we may run into it
> again.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:43 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MACROMEDIA PEOPLE....RE: instant SSL HELP!!!!!
> 
> 
> Helpful tip Mike, thanks!  (Explains why it wasn't working on 
> CF5 either...)
> 
> -Stace
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:32 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MACROMEDIA PEOPLE....RE: instant SSL HELP!!!!!
> 
> i asked about your problem internally and below is some info 
> that should
> help resolve your issues:
> 
> --
> Looks to me like this Instant SSL company is new on the SSL scene and
> their certificate signing authority is not trusted by default 
> by the Sun
> 1.3.1 JVM.
> 
> If you run this command, you can which signers the JVM trusts:
> 
> C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\bin\keytool -list -storepass 
> changeit -noprompt
> -keystore C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\lib\security\cacerts
> 
> Keystore type: jks
> Keystore provider: SUN
> 
> Your keystore contains 11 entries:
> 
> thawtepersonalfreemailca, Fri Feb 12 15:12:16 EST 1999,
> trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 1E:74:C3:86:3C:0C:35:C5:3E:C2:7F:EF:3C:AA:3C:D9
> thawtepersonalbasicca, Fri Feb 12 15:11:01 EST 1999, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> E6:0B:D2:C9:CA:2D:88:DB:1A:71:0E:4B:78:EB:02:41
> verisignclass3ca, Mon Jun 29 13:05:51 EDT 1998, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 78:2A:02:DF:DB:2E:14:D5:A7:5F:0A:DF:B6:8E:9C:5D
> thawtepersonalpremiumca, Fri Feb 12 15:13:21 EST 1999, 
> trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 3A:B2:DE:22:9A:20:93:49:F9:ED:C8:D2:8A:E7:68:0D
> thawteserverca, Fri Feb 12 15:14:33 EST 1999, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> C5:70:C4:A2:ED:53:78:0C:C8:10:53:81:64:CB:D0:1D
> verisignclass4ca, Mon Jun 29 13:06:57 EDT 1998, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 1B:D1:AD:17:8B:7F:22:13:24:F5:26:E2:5D:4E:B9:10
> verisignclass1ca, Mon Jun 29 13:06:17 EDT 1998, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 51:86:E8:1F:BC:B1:C3:71:B5:18:10:DB:5F:DC:F6:20
> verisignserverca, Mon Jun 29 13:07:34 EDT 1998, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 74:7B:82:03:43:F0:00:9E:6B:B3:EC:47:BF:85:A5:93
> thawtepremiumserverca, Fri Feb 12 15:15:26 EST 1999, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 06:9F:69:79:16:66:90:02:1B:8C:8C:A2:C3:07:6F:3A
> verisignclass2ca, Mon Jun 29 13:06:39 EDT 1998, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> EC:40:7D:2B:76:52:67:05:2C:EA:F2:3A:4F:65:F0:D8
> ldap, Fri Oct 11 08:50:17 EDT 2002, trustedCertEntry,
> Certificate fingerprint (MD5):
> 8F:0B:5B:26:7D:17:0E:AC:B2:56:A8:5C:96:52:37:4F
> 
> As you can see, Thawte and Verisign are there, but no Instant SSL. I
> also have an additional entry in mine, ldap, that is the 
> certificate for
> our test lab SSL signing authority (so we can test CFMX connecting to
> SSL and generate our own certificates for our web and ldap servers
> without paying).
> 
> So in order for him to get it to work, it should be as simple as
> importing the certificate for Instant SSL into the keystore using the
> keytool utility.
> 
> If the certificate for Instant SSL is provided in a text file, i.e.
> c:\instantssl.cer, the command would like this:
> C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\bin\keytool -import -keystore
> C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\lib\security\cacerts -alias instantssl
> -storepass changeit -noprompt -trustcacerts -file c:\instantssl.cer
> 
> CFMX needs to be restarted afterwards.
> 
> Here are the docs on keytool:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/win32/keytool.html
> --
> 
> 
> --
> Thanks to Trevor Baker for vetting my response. Just to clarify... The
> certificate that needs to be installed in the JVM is the root CA
> certificate for Instant SSL, not for the site he's trying to access.
> According to Instant SSL, they use the GTE CyberTrust Root CA 
> and Comodo
> Class 3 Security Services CA to sign certificates, so, to be safe the
> customer would want to install both certificates (not sure 
> which one the
> site's cert was signed by).  Instant SSL offers these two certificates
> for download on their sites as .crt files:
> http://www.instantssl.com/support/cert_installation/index.html
> --
> 
> --
> Yes - although we have found that putting the server cert into cacerts
> instead of the CA certificate will also work.  It's not the 
> right way to
> do it, but in a pinch it gets you up and running.
> --
> 
> --
> Extracting Certificates from IE5 and installing them into CFMX
> 
> In Internet Explorer:
> 
> [Tools] [Internet Options] [Content tab]  [Certificates] [Trusted Root
> Certification Authorities tab] [Advanced]
> 
>         set [Export Format]  to DER encoded binary X.509 (*.cer)
> 
> The "Purposes" list should have everything except "Client
> Authentication" and "Secure Email" checked.
> 
> click [OK]
> 
> highlight the Certificates you want (...or all of the certificates if
> you want them all...)
> 
>     drag&drop the highlighted certificates onto
> C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\lib\security\      in a separate Windows
> Explorer window
> 
> This should create .cer files for the certificates you 
> selected.  If you
> selected all the certificates, there will be more than 100 .cer files.
> 
> Use the following command in a DOS window to install the certificates
> into the cacerts file. The current directory should be
> C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\lib\security\.
> This command should be entered as one long line:
> 
>     for %a in (*.cer) DO  C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\bin\keytool -import
> -trustcacerts -keystore cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias
> "%~na" -file "%a"
> 
> Delete the .cer files which are no longer needed:
> 
>       del *.cer
> 
> Restart CFMX
> 
> 
> 
> 
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