Re: Intranet: *Internal* Certifying Authority?

• To: justin.clark@integralis.co.uk
• Subject: Re: Intranet: *Internal* Certifying Authority?
• From: "Nathan Neulinger" <nneul@umr.edu>
• Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:54:59 -0500 (CDT)
• 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

>      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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