Horst Herb wrote: > 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.
Command-line versions of openssl are also available for MS-Windows - see http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
