On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:49, J Collett wrote: > Anyway, don't need to get into the philosophical issue; I just wanted to > know technically how you would sign, say an OOo rtf file with an X.509 key, > not necessarily HeSA's. I understand that the way HeSA do it with the > Rainbow software makes it very hard.
if you have any linux computer at hand, just type "man openssl". It will tell you everything you need, from generating key, signing and verifying certificates, generating certificate requests up to encrypting/decrypting/signing/verifying documents with X.509 keys You can the read the manual for each individual openssl commend too: "man x509" for example will tell you how to set up your own mini CA, that is how you could run your own certificate authority eg within a division should you wish to do that In most cases, a single command plus some parameters. Easy, nothing to it other then spending an hour or so reading the documentation. That could be reduced to a 5 minute cheatsheet, but if people don't understand what they are doing, they are bound to commit mistakes and get into trouble. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
