Hi RYAN >@2003.07.12_04:36:57_+0200 > need to know a few things about open ssl I keep getting errors about > certificates ending in root or something like that. Is this still a > secure connection. Also Do you have a method of self signing certs or > supplying some kind of client cert so that my clients do not receive > this message all the time.
First of all, set your email program to wrap at around 70 chars. If you sign a certificate yourself, your clients have no way of determining that you are who you say you are. If you buy a certificate from Verisign (or the likes), they won't have this problem, because the public key of Verisign's root cert is already installed on their computer. What you have to do (if you want to keep on using self-signed certs) is to set up your own CA (self-signed). Then create the cert for binc using this CA cert. The publish the CA public cert on your website so that your clients can download it - this will stop that message. Yes you are still secure. Check out SSL-Certificates-HOWTO at www.tldp.org Stefano Rivera
