From: Ed Sunder (edsunderthreehd.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:50:16 CDT

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What drawbacks are there in becoming your own certificate service?
Versus one of the major SSL services? Other than that the source of the
certificate (if the user looked it up) would not be a commercially known
provider and you couldn't participate in any of the major provider's
ever so valuable certificate programs.

Ed Sunder
Three HD

>You can easily do it using the Microsoft CA service. There
>is plenty of documentation around on the subject.
>
>In short, you setup the CA service, browse to the web
>interface and submit your CSR. Then logon to the service
>as a user with relevant permissions, approve the request,
>et voila, collect your certificate from the web interface.
>
>Regards
>Lee
>--
>Lee Evans
>Vital Online Ltd
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Benjamin Meade [mailto:benlanwest.com.au]
>> Sent: 15 July 2003 09:14
>> To: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
>> Subject: CA-SSL in IIS
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am looking into installing and SSL certificate into IIS to
>> allow encrypted connections. Rather than pay out a few
>> hundred dollars a year for a SSL cert, I would rather
>> generate it myself.
>>
>> Can I use the CA server in Win2K server for this? Or do I
>> need OpenSSL or something to generate the certificate?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Benjamin Meade
>> System Administrator
>> LanWest Pty Ltd
>> Ph: (08) 9440 3033
>> Fax: (08) 9440 3370
>>
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