Download OpenSSL and follow the directions to make a self signed one. It's a real PIA. We had to do one for a dev server that had secure content. It was not fun.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 07 August 2006 22:19 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SSL Certificates I've been looking around on Google for some info on making a self-signed cert, but haven't found anything that makes sense. Is there some software or something built into IIS 5 that allows me to make self-signed certs? MakeCert.exe? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SSL Certificates > Public perception is not a problem...I'm hosting a non-public office > application for an insurance agent, which will have no pages for the > public to view. In that case, you don't need to buy anything at all. Just use a self-signed certificate as Jim suggested. > A "self-signed" certificate offers the same security as one that I > purchase? Certificates provide two things - they allow you to encrypt all communications between a browser and a server, and they allow you to verify that a site is what it identifies itself as being. Self-signed certificates encrypt everything just like any other certificate, but because they're not issued by a trusted certificate vendor, they don't let you verify anything. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:249115 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
