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I would like to learn the basics of digital certificates. Including how to create a self-signed certificate. Does anyone know a good introductory text about this?
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I’m in the middle of my annual certificate renewal for the West Wind site and I can honestly say that I hate IIS’s certificate system. When it works it’s fine, but when it doesn’t man can it be a pain. Because I deal with public certificates on my site merely once a year, and you have to perform…
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So I have been following instructions on setting up Client Certificate Authentication in Apache2 w/ mod_ssl. This is solely for the purpose of testing an application against CAA, not for any sort of production use.
So far I've followed http://www.impetus.us/~rjmooney/projects/misc/clientcertauth…
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I'm trying to set up root certification authority, subordinate certification authority and to generate the client certificates signed by any of this CA that nginx 0.7.67 on Debian Squeeze will accept. My problem is that root CA signed client certificate works fine while subordinate CA signed one results…
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I have to write a MSI, where in i have to give only the public certicate. In case the user gives a private certificate, it should pop up an error message.
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I understsand that if I want to use authentication in WCF then I need to install a certificate on my server which WCF will use to encrypt data passing between my server and client.
For development purposes I believe I can use the makecert.exe util. to make a development certificate.
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I'm running Plesk 8.6.0:
I have an SSL cert installed through Plesk's admin interface. But I have a bit of an issue: When I enabled SSL for the site, and selected my cert, then restart httpd, Plesk defaults to using my self-signed default certificate.
Conversely, when I disable SSL support for the…
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Downloaded a new ssl cert from go daddy and installed the cert on apache2 server
put the cert in /etc/ssl/certs/ folder
put the gd_bundle.crt in the /etc/ssl/ folder
private key is in /etc/ssl/private/private.key
I just replaced the original files with the new files, did not replace the private…
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After creating a self-signed SSL certificate, I have configured my remote mysqld to use them (and ssl is enabled)
I ssh into my remote server, and try connecting to its own mysqld using ssl (mysql server is 5.5.25)..
~> mysql -u <user> -p --ssl=1 --ssl-cert=client.cert --ssl-key=client…
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I have a IIS web site which requires client certificate. I have turned off CRL checking. The client is unable to access the web site - he gets 403.17 (certificate expired) error.
I would like to log the certificate he is using, becaue I think he is using the wrong certificate.
Is there a way to…
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I have a (hopefully) common scenario for one of my sites that I just can't seem to figure out how to deploy correctly.
I have the following site and directories for example.com:
These need to require SSL:
/var/www/example.com/admin
/var/www/example.com/order
These need to be non-SSL:
/var/www/example…
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