Re: [cobalt-users] secure admin cert & images/connections?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> Rik Thomas wrote:
> 
> > It may be barfing on the self signed deal, I use certs from
> > http://www.freessl.com on my admin servers and the like.  See if that
> > fixed the problem.  Sorry it couldn't be more help.
> 
> Of course to netscape they look like a self-signed cert, since they're
> not trusted <wry grin>.
> 
> Nevertheless, I just went to the site and ordered one.  After I
> submitted (right under the place where I pasted in my CSR request), it
> went to a blank page <frown>; they don't support Netscape well either
> <frown, again>.  So I cut and pasted the URL into IE, and found it was a
> page to sign up to pay money for true site.  I'm still waiting to see if
> I'm going to get a cert.  What do they do first?  How long does it take?

Hmm, thawte will make test certs for you , or at least they used to...but
there isn't any difference between a self signed cert , other than the
part of the key that authenticates it, unless you did something evil like
changing the key length (trying to make 'big' keys will resilt in certs
that crash most of the browsers ;0

Man this list is lagged/flaky/duplicating things/slow :(

gsh