(CATOOL) Re: (RADIATOR-ANNOUNCE) CATool Private Certificate Authority software now available

[Mike McCauley]

Hi Robert,

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:49 am, Robert Blayzor wrote:
> On 9/10/03 7:32 PM, "Mike McCauley" <mikem at open.com.au> wrote:
> > If yuo are using private certificates like this, you will generally need
> > to install the CA's root certificate into your browser, so it knows how
> > to authenticate the server certificate. After that, no complaints.
>
> Understood, but that means these CA's are not for general E-com web server
> deployments as they are not recognized with stock installs of popular web
> browsers.  That may be a harder sell to my boss...

Understood. Its a natural consequence of using a _private_ CA.
The only root certifcates that browsers usually ship with are those for public 
CAs.

>
> While I do find a certificate server very useful for other things, like our
> VPN, etc... We'd have to overly justify the use.  Keep up the good work,
> I'll be monitoring the products progress.. =)
>
> --
> Robert Blayzor, BOFH
> INOC, LLC
> rblayzor at inoc.net
> PGP: http://www.inoc.net/~dev/
> Key fingerprint = A445 7D1E 3D4F A4EF 6875  21BB 1BAA 10FE 5748 CFE9
>
> ICMP: The protocol that goes PING!

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