From: John Jolet <john@jolet.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:05:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511151505.49497.john@jolet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437A4B19.1040809@gmx.net>
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 14:54, Jarry wrote:
> Antoine wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We are going to set up ssl on a webserver at work and I guess that means
> > we need a certificate... does anyone have any useful alternatives to
> > Verisign? Are they really worth the name?
>
> Well, If you really need official certificate from some CA, have a look
> in your web-browser, it has certificates for most known authorities
> already installed (thawte, verisign, geotrust, Entrust.net, Equifax,
> IPS Seguridad, just to name a few of them).
>
> IMHO, Verisignt and Thawte are the best known (but I don't say they
> are the best).
ha! verisign bought thawte a few years ago...
>
> You may try using self-signed certificate, or get one from cacert\
> free of charge:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_cacert.org_SSL_certificates
>
> Jarry
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-15 20:43 [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities Antoine
2005-11-15 20:48 ` John Jolet
2005-11-15 20:54 ` Jarry
2005-11-15 21:05 ` John Jolet [this message]
2005-11-15 21:03 ` Mike Williams
2005-11-17 0:13 ` Jonathan Nichols
2005-11-15 21:53 ` David Mallwitz
2005-11-16 18:29 ` Antoine
2005-11-16 4:51 ` A. Khattri
2005-11-16 15:24 ` kashani
2005-11-16 18:26 ` Antoine
2005-11-19 15:20 ` A. Khattri
2005-11-19 17:07 ` kashani
2005-11-21 16:35 ` A. Khattri
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