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? > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on > > time. > > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
