[1136] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Public httpd servers that support encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holger Reif )
Wed Nov 8 13:12:10 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 14:25:16 +0100
From: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif )
To: wolfgang@wi.whu-koblenz.de
Cc: andrew@andy.alt.za, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Wolfgang:
>The new 2.0 beta 2 versions of the netscape navigator should accept
>additional certificates and CAs, has anybody tested this already?
>At least you should now be able to build a inhouse combination of Navigator
>and a SSL server which provide secure communication among them without getting
>VeriSign involved.
It should but AFAIK there is nothing like that in the beta - exepct
some more trusted certificates.
Jeff weinstein of netscapoe states he is working with high priority on
a paper describing how to set up an own cert hierarchy.
read you later - Holger Reif
http://remus.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/Reif/
