[150196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: X.509 Certs For Personal Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sat Feb 18 13:59:46 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120218163737.GD89362@macbook.bluepipe.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:58:52 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org> wrote:
> John Peach (john-nanog) writes:
>> >
>> > =A0 =A0 "Your request is being held up for review by our personnel".
>> >
>> > =A0 =A0 Up to 6 hours. Must be their definition of instant :)
>>
>> It's nice to see that they actually do random reviews, rather than just
>> issuing everything requested. I use startssl and have not had anything
>> held for review.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0And I did get my account and cert shortly after. So they a=
re quick.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd trust a cert where the=
y
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0happen to be the ones generating the key and the CSR thems=
elves.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Yes, it's free, but that doesn't mean I want to give up al=
l forms
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0of security :)
<http://goo.gl/thGxC> (sorry, the blog's url is stupid and long)
use your own key materials and gen your own csr ... silly simple.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Phil
>
