[1797] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Intranet: *Internal* Certifying Authority?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Neulinger)
Tue Apr 9 14:51:45 1996
To: justin.clark@Integralis.co.uk
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:54:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Nathan Neulinger" <nneul@umr.edu>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <01I3C6ZBYH36002KH4@INTEGD.INTEGRALIS.CO.UK> from "justin.clark@Integralis.co.uk" at Apr 9, 96 01:37:00 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> How can a large organisation, who are concerned for internal security,
> implement an internal Certifying Authority for issuing (x.509?)
> Certificates to their internal users? This is for a large and secure
> Intranet Web project.
> I believe that Netscape's Commerce Server will support the main
> functionality such as encryption, authentication and digital signatures but
> the connection and creation of a CA is the confusing part on this.
Get Apache-SSL, it includes the code necessary to become a CA for
generating internal certificates.
-- Nathan
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