OK, we have need to secure our internal communications between servers. Plan: set up inhouse Certificate Authority, and use those certificates to encrypt communications between IIS and MSSQL servers. The ultimate goal is to have encrypted Witango websites available via the internet, securely accessing restricted SQL databases behind our firewall. We're talking serious federal regs here; we've got to be sure the data remains protected.
We've set up a CA on our intranet webserver and added certificates to two test servers (IIS5 & MS-SQL2000, both on W2K). The CA seems to be working OK, and certs seem to install on the servers. However, whenever we force encryption on the SQL server, we can't access it at all - not from the web, not from Enterprise Manager, nada. (The data was very safe, however. ;^D) No one here has ever done either of these things (inhouse CA or SQL using certs), so we've no clue where the problem is. I'm pushing to get some help on this. If anyone on the list is interested in consulting on this, please send me an email. I'm not making the decisions, and we're notoriously slow to spend money, so don't count on anything happening soon or at all. But if I can send some business to one of y'all rather than M$, I'd rather. Thanks! j ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
