Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 06:34:50 -0000 From: "admin" <admin2@enabled.com> To: Augusto Jun Devegili <freebsd@devegili.org>, admin <admin2@enabled.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSL certificates and IE Message-ID: <20030713061434.M56305@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <3F10EAAC.1010209@devegili.org> References: <20030713030742.M58442@enabled.com> <3F10EAAC.1010209@devegili.org>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:14:20 -0300, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote > Considering you won't buy a certificate from a trusted CA, you might > tell your users to install your CA certificate or your Web server > certificate by providing a link to these certificates: IE will > download them, ask the user if he/she trust them and put them in the > trusted certificate store. > > Alternatively, when a user connects to an SSL Web server and IE > doesn't trust the certificate, there's an option in the dialog box > which allows for the certificate installation in the trusted > certificate store. > > Anyway, you won't be able to change your certificate so that your > users access your SSL Web server without some sort of warning... > unless you buy a certificate from some (IE) trusted CA, such as Verisign. Thanks for the advice - I understand a lot more now. How can I find out who all the trusted CA companies are? - Noah > > admin wrote: > > OS: FreeBSD 4.8 > > mod_ssl 2.8.14 > > apache 1.3.27 > > > > > > --- > > > > I am now servering a certificate to web connections. > > Internet Explorer complains of the certificate not being issued by a trusted > > company. > > > > I am the CA for the certificate. What are ways I can modify the certificate > > so IE does not complain about this anymore? > > > > - Noah
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