You can self-sign your own certs. Only thing is you'll have a popup
about the cert not being signed by a CA, but it's nothing to worry
about. 

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 07:12, Jiggs Howick wrote:
> This is my server info:
> 
> Apache/2.0.44 (Win32) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0
> 
> Are you saying I don't need a Certificate Authority to
> sign the certs?
> 
> --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You should actually have some self-signed certs
> > included with apache+modssl.
> > Look in httpd.conf to use them. Just do a search for
> > SSL.
> > 
> > Hmm, are you using Apache 1.3.x (apache+modssl) or
> > Apache 2 with the SSL
> > module?
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jiggs Howick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:50 AM
> > Subject: [brlug-general] Secure surfing
> > 
> > 
> > > I've got an Apache web server set up at home. I'm
> > > using a CGI Perl script to host a CGI proxy for
> > > surfing the web while keeping my anonymity.
> > Everything
> > > works great. The one thing I have not been unable
> > to
> > > do is to surf to web pages requiring secure
> > > connections, HTTPS sites. I've tried setting up
> > > security certificates from several Certificate
> > > Authorities. They all want loads of money for the
> > > service. I know this is required for banks and
> > full
> > > time businesses needing to protect credit card
> > numbers
> > > and passwords. Does anyone know of a cheap or free
> > way
> > > to set up SSL or SSH security for my home web
> > server?
> > >
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