Good day, everyone!
I am a newbie (an absolute one at that).
On this thread, I have a question. If we could cook up certs like that,
why are they there anyway?
Is it like the loopback in Unix? Just a mechanism for standardisation - an
emulation, I mean...
what does the encryption mean if it is not 'trustworthy'? That it is
easily crackable? (I write from Singapore, not the US, if it helps.)
If these questions are super-dumb, please excuse me and point me to the
right book that I can RTFM with. And my apologies too on that...
Regards,
--Sue.
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Graham Leggett wrote:
- ->AJDIN BRANDIC wrote:
- ->
- ->> I'm a student at Coventry University (UK) doing Computer Science Hon. Degree
- ->> and for my final year project I am building a secure web server plus
- ->> creating a web site which will use this facility.
- ->>
- ->> Now do I realy need a certificate (FQDN) to install SSL? This is only a
- ->> project which will not be used anyware by anyone realy, it is just an
- ->> exercize. How much a licence would cost anyway?
- ->
- ->Yes, you do need a certificate, but you could just as well generate one
- ->yourself. All the software required to do this is included with mod_ssl
- ->(and openssl) and instructions are included.
- ->
- ->If you want to generate a certificate that is trusted by all the
- ->browsers out of the box, you will need to buy one. It's up to you to
- ->decide how important this is to you. A certificate not recognised by the
- ->browser (such as a homegrown cert you cooked up yourself) will cause the
- ->browser to throw an "are you sure" dialog box before downloading the
- ->page.
- ->
- ->Regards,
- ->Graham
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