On May 23, 2008, at 4:22 AM, Moehrke, John (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> Great question... No they are not... You can still use certificates
> without needing an expensive PKI. Self-signed certificates managed
> manually (trust). Rob and I keep trying to tell you this, and we have
> provided white papers explaining scalability and management methods. I
> recommend that you do NOT invent something special for syslog. Choose
> certificates and be done.
Let me agree and add that you can also set up your own private PKI,
which I mean to be different in that you spin your own root and the
root signs the other certs. That way, they're not self-signed -- they
descend from a root, it's just your root.
Jon
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