Re: Being one's own CA for a University computer lab

2001-05-17 Thread Jan Dries
Arcady Genkin wrote: The documentation states that being one's own CA is insecure in the Internet environment, while is acceptable on the intra-net. Could anyone explain the issues implied by that statement? SSL is not less secure if you are your own CA, at least from a technical point

Problems with verisign cert and modssl

2001-05-17 Thread Matthew Bachmann
I'm running openssl-engine-0.9.6, mod_ssl-2.8.2-1.3.19 , and apache 1.3.19. I have a cert from Verisign. Our certificate class from verisign is: Digital ID Class 3 - Global Server ID. It's a 128 bit cert that I believe is supposed to do a step down to 56 bit when that's all the browser can

Re: SSLCertificateChain file for Intermediate CA

2001-05-17 Thread Damon Maria
I presume you're not trying to explicitly construct the server certificate chain that is being sent to the browser, together with the actual server cert? This is what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to send all the certificates in the chain (expect the root) to the browser. This includes my

RE: mod-ssl Installation

2001-05-17 Thread Hu, Meng P (Meng Pei)
Hi, i did read through the FAQ. The following are the steps i did in order to fix the error : 1. installed Sun patch 105710-01 (Sparc) which adds a /dev/random device. 2. added 'setenv RANDFILE /export/home/tmp/randfile.rnd' 3. did procedure make certificate and didn't see any error But, i

Re: SSLCertificateChain file for Intermediate CA

2001-05-17 Thread Damon Maria
Since I haven't gotten too much of a response yet (expect for thanks to Juha) I'll post my VirtualHost in httpd.conf, which I probably should have done in the first place. If I uncomment the SSLCertificateChainFile line then the following appears in the log and apache won't start... [error]

RE: SSLCertificateChain file for Intermediate CA

2001-05-17 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: Since I haven't gotten too much of a response yet (expect for thanks to :: Juha) I'll post my VirtualHost in httpd.conf, which I probably should :: have done in the first place. :: :: If I uncomment the SSLCertificateChainFile line then the following :: appears in the log and apache won't

Re: SSLCertificateChain file for Intermediate CA

2001-05-17 Thread Damon Maria
Juha Saarinen wrote: Stupid suggestion, perhaps, but can Apache read the CA file? Are the permissions OK? Good suggestion, but the permissions are OK (identical to server.crt). thanks again, Damon. __ Apache Interface to