From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ec87N-0007JI-Hg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:13:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAFLC3Zd002885; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:12:03 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAFL5b7h032383 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:05:38 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A6B18036 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:05:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05354-08-2 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:05:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 720A518031 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:05:36 -0600 (CST) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:05:49 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <437A4861.7050500@gmail.com> <437A4B19.1040809@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <437A4B19.1040809@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511151505.49497.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 29d6583a-afb0-498e-9545-38ba64e2c951 X-Archives-Hash: 73493becb1d11af97b0c8d3e2ea667d1 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 -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list