[GLLUG] More mod_ssl

[Charles Williams]

You can make a self-signed certificate but then people know you're secure
because you say so.
You can buy the certificate from Verisign (we do) and then mostly everyone
comes to your site and recognizes you're secure.
You can get a cheaper certificate (free) from whoever (thawte a couple years
ago?) and people coming to the site recognize it's secure because "thawte"
says so. 
I recommend the Verisign. It's relatively painless (or painful depending
your viewpoint).

chuck
willcha@sme.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Szumlinski [SMTP:szumlins@msu.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:18 PM
> To:	Lansing Linux User Group
> Subject:	[GLLUG] More mod_ssl
> 
> Well, I got apache w/mod_ssl up and running on our FreeBSD system.  Now I
> have a question about how the whole thing works.  I get a "Security
> Failure/Data Decryption Error" when pointing to the index I have at my ssl
> virtual host. I set up certificates (thanks to dpk's instructions) and
> everything seems to be starting up okay, but I can't access the site
> (check
> out https://cstore-secure.cl.msu.edu/).  Do I need a verisign account to
> setup SSL correctly, or can I make self-signed certificates or something?
> How does it all work?
> 
> -Mike
> 
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