Have you looked at OpenCA? http://www.openca.org/ Hans Robin Aly wrote: > > Hello, > > my problem is in understanding the technique used to build up a own CA, as > discribed in your faq (ssl_faq.html#ToC29). i somehow get along with the > signing stuff, but can't imagine how the CA would run. I mean I don't start > any service. where does the client get his ok, that this public key is the > right one for this site ? > > i'm a systemadministrator for a school in switzerland. we are building a > website mainly for the students and the teachers at this school. in order to > have authentification data encrypted we want to use apache (mod_ssl) under > linux (suse 6.2). we don't have enough money to buy a certificate from one of > the sellers, so we wanted to build our own instance (CA), in order to prevent > the error message coming up if a user visits a https page. > > could somebody help us ? > > thank you! > > regards > robin aly > > --- > Robin Aly > email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Hans Lohmander -- Sigma Exallon Information AB Internet & Intranet solutions Talkto:+46 (0)40 247636 Faxto:+46 (0)40 24 99 50 Mobile# +46 (0)709-898636 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ei.sigma.se/ ICQ# 9319123 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
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