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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: fishing for X.509 expertise
From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:03:54 -0500
References: <5338810.1011476068@cambric.reid.org>

SHEESH!
Just when I thought I was starting to understand computers.... you come up
with this!!!
I think I'll just go back into a dark room, and pout!

Dan ( Duh, the penguin ate my homework....) Post


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 12:34 AM
Subject: [Leica] OT: fishing for X.509 expertise


> This is "on topic" because I need the answer to this question as part of
> the next-generation LUG server I am building. Please don't waste your time
> reading this unless you have RSA X.509 experience.
>
> I need to find an X.509 guru to help me understand how to:
>
>   * Remove a password from a signed certificate. I know the pw.  There
must
> be some set of options to the openssl command that will do this, but I
> can't find them.
>
>   * Make a web page that will download a CA cert into IE.
>
>   * Find a CA that is known to IE that will issue me a cert without my
> having to pay a fortune every year. The cheapest commercial 128-bit certs
> I've found are $700 from Thawte.
>
> Right now I have a self-signed cert on https://server2.waverley.reid.org/
> and most versions of IE are pretty unhappy with it. I am offended by the
> politics behind this IE behavior, but I can't afford to let that emotion
> interfere with my quest for a solution.
>
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