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 1EcS6T-0002WG-0k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:33:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAGIWPYL013080; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:32:25 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAGIQQAt020986 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:26:26 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 4so276490nzn for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:26:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=i9ip6nNS+l6l4BRmixf+WVUx8VU30Kv5FNbi4sXn3M0sqoZX0ZAVvOleevvibyb2jU8EAZru9EuNqMqMz+I3k4TBCPp2FcPN+Y7wx5TJ4reYxglWPP12GS0r9ahwaoryRG+TjqE40C2Q833ZZvgDBziVJ6N4BZ7J/DLnttkQbzc= Received: by 10.65.44.7 with SMTP id w7mr2671325qbj; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:26:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [80.119.103.61]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f13sm1143822qba.2005.11.16.10.26.24; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:26:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <437B79D0.6020109@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:26:24 +0100 From: Antoine User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051022) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities References: <437A4861.7050500@gmail.com> <437B4F19.6030903@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: <437B4F19.6030903@badapple.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6b05ee43-157c-4249-b151-a4aba5fea4f6 X-Archives-Hash: 2a593ffa4d27cd9e80dbb2a6f8d3ac22 kashani 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? >> We are not going to be doing any monetary transactions but our clients >> are very security conscious (who isn't!) and I have no experience in >> these matters. I am certain the boss will want verisign, as he buys a >> lot of stuff just for the name but if I can offer him a comparable >> alternative at a fraction of the cost he may go for it. ... Thanks for all your suggestions. I think we will just go for a self-signed because, at the end of the day, all our clients know us, and trust us. Thanks again Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list