En Tue, May 02, 2000 at 12:27:53PM +0800, Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. escribio:
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#_ On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
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#_ > In order to make a self-signed certificate for my web server
#_ > I need to do a 'make certificate TYPE=custom'. I tried to play
#_ > with the many different variations of responses to
#_ > O, OU, and CN for both CA and Subject, and some combinations
#_ > work and others do not. If the combination does not work,
#_ > the browser says the certificate is invalid. I found that the
#_ > following works:
#_ >
#_ > CA certificate:
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#_ > O (organization) = host.com
#_ > OU (organization unit) = SomeName CA
#_ > CN (common name) = SomeName CA
#_ > Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#_ >
#_ > Subject (server) certificate:
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#_ > O (organization) = host.com (must be same as above)
#_ > OU (organization unit) = SomeName Web
#_ > CN (common name) = SomeName Web
#_ > Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
Can anyone explain to me, in layman's terms what a certificate is and what
is it used for, and what can you do with it? I have a vague idea, i need
more details.
Thank you.
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