LVS
lvs-users
Google
 
Web LinuxVirtualServer.org

Re: Favorite cert authority?

To: LVS <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Favorite cert authority?
From: Zachariah Mully <zmully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Aug 2002 13:26:22 -0400
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 12:26, Joseph Mack wrote:
> 
> As far as the website operation is concerned a self signed certificate
> is just as good as one from Verisign. The only problem is when the user
> gets the ominous message warning them that the signing authority of 
> this certificate is not recognised. 
> 
> You could engage in a bit of user education here and tell them that Verisign's
> signature is no better than yours. 
> 

Thanks Joe, this is unfortunately exactly what I expected to hear. And
yes, the omnious warning will definitely confuse and scare our brain
dead users.

As someone pointed out, one cert should work fine for many NAT'ed
servers, anyone know if my DR config would change that?

Thanks all!
Zack



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>