Hi Never done one with OpenSSL myself so I'm not much help there.
One nice thing about self signed - no charge to regenerate a new key .... Bob On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:41 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Thanks, Bob. I'll see if I can regenerate it. The OpenSSL script doesn't > prompt for a alternate name, so I'm not sure just how to get that field into > it, but I'll mess around a bit. > > John > ---- > > On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> https://febo.com returns "This certificate is not valid (host name >> mismatch)" under Safari >> >> Apparently by the bizarre rules of ssl wildcards - *.febo.com does not >> match feebo.com. I believe febo.com goes in the SubjectAltName field and >> *.febo.com stays in the CommonName field. >> >> Very strange stuff. >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:20 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: >> >>> I've regenerated the SSL certificate for HTTPS at febo.com. The new >>> certificate should be good for ten years, as I intended (but failed to >>> accomplish) when I created the old one. It's still a self-signed cert, so >>> will throw a warning with your browser, but you can trust me and tell the >>> browser to accept the exception. :-) >>> >>> I'm traveling over the weekend so won't be able to address any problems, >>> but if anyone has problems I'll do the best I can to respond early next >>> week. >>> >>> BTW -- because this is a totally non-commercial site, I'm not interested in >>> forking over the money to buy a trusted certificate, not to mention the >>> hassle of having to renew it. Sorry if the security warning is an >>> annoyance, but that's the way it is. >>> >>> John >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
