[lug] ssl ca certs

[Hugh Brown]

These are certs for an individual not for a Certificate authority.  I want
to be able to sign five different certs and have it recognize me as a
trusted certificate authority.  

For example, if you want to test out a Verisign certificate they will sign
one for you using a Test Certificate Authority which you have to load into
every browser.  They have a link that you click on that fires up a process
in netscape that allows you to add a cert to the trusted signers list (i.e.
Communicator->Tools->Security Info->Certificates->Signers).  I was
wondering how to get stuff on to that list.

I guess in your below message that meant everyone who uses netscape.  At
first read, I thought it meant the global populace that uses netscape, not
merely all the users of a local netscape installation.

Hugh

"Evelyn Mitchell"
> 
> Netscape Communicator 4.78
> Communcator:
>   Tools:
>     Security Info:
>       Certificates:
>         Yours:      # To import your certificate
>            Import a Certificate (requires you to set up a private password 
>               for communicator)
>         People:     # To import someone elses
>            It looks like if you use Communicator to read your email,
>            you can manage certificates emailed to you from here.
>            I use mutt, so the only options it gives me are to search
>            in the Netscape or the Verisign directory for a certificate
>            matching an email. I don't know how difficult it is to get
>            listed in either of those. I also don't know how to get more
>            directories added to that list.
> 
> Konqueror is much easier:
>   Tools:
>     Crypto:
>       Your Certificates:
>         Import
>       Peer SSL Certificates:
>         Import
> 
> Does that help?
> Evelyn Mitchell
> efm at tummy.com
> 
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:04:20PM -0400, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > Just me and my friends.
> > 
> > Hugh
> > 
> > "Evelyn Mitchell"
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:18:47PM -0400, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > > > I am playing around with ssl again.  I am experimenting with being my own
> > > > CA and was wondering how I can get my CA cert into Netscape's list of
> > > > trusted signers.  Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Do you mean for everyone who uses Netscape, or just for you and your friends?
> > > 
> > > Evelyn Mitchell
> > > efm at tummy.com
> > > 
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