OK - better start putting in some effort then ;-)
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Ben Kennish
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Sellar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:09 AM
Subject: RE: SSL RPM?
> It is not provided on the freeVSD site because using SSL connections
> requires the creation of a certificate authority and the management of
> certificates. To do this properly is not a trivial task. The CA scripts
> included with freeVSD are not a robust implmentation and should not be
> regarded as such, so unless you know what you are doing, and appreciate
the
> security issues involved, don't just grab an RPM and go diving into using
> SSL. By requiring people to compile-in SSL support from source we hope to
> discourage the less technically able from trying it out. I would fully
> expect people to inundate the list because they are unable to get their CA
> working properly - which is not really a freeVSD issue at all. When a more
> fool-proof certificate management scheme is in place (hopefully courtesy
of
> the chaps at Jumpline.com) I will be happy to make SSL-enabled rpms
> available. Until that time I am afraid using SSL is going to require a
very
> slight effort on your part.
>
> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Kennish
> > Sent: 11 April 2001 11:04
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: SSL RPM?
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of a freeVSD RPM identical to the standard one
> > except with
> > openSSL support built in (why is this not provided on the freeVSD site?)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > ----
> > Ben Kennish
> >
> > Software Engineer
> > Fubra Limited
> >
> > web | www.fubra.net
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> >
> > PS: To prove that this e-mail is genuinely from me, I shall tell
> > you that my
> > favourite colour is red. ;-)
>
>
