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Article: 13867 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!jaltman
From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit-FTP and SSL
Date: 18 Nov 2002 23:32:06 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <684be77d.0211180859.13f8daff@posting.google.com>,
John Haines <jhaines@benplan.com> wrote:
: A few more questions. I want to automated the entire connection and
: transfer process. However, with SSL enabled connections, you are
: asked for your private passphrase when making a connection. To
: eliminate the prompting for the phassphrase I unencrypted the private
: key and placed it in a secure place. I used the following command to
: create the unencrypted private key file.
:
: openssl dsa -in encrypted-key-file -out unencrypted-key-file
:
: Is this the correct way to accomplish this?
yes
: Now, I have only one more
: prompt to eliminate. We are generating our own certificate for our
: FTP Server. How do I eliminate this warning?
You create a CA certificate; you use it to sign your host's Cert Request
and produce a Host Cert; then you add your CA cert to the verify list on
the client.
All described in
http://www.kermit-project.org/security.html
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer Kermit 95 2.0 GUI available now!!!
The Kermit Project @ Columbia University SSH, Secure Telnet, Secure FTP, HTTP
http://www.kermit-project.org/ Secured with MIT Kerberos, SRP, and
kermit-support@columbia.edu OpenSSL.