SSL w/o CA or domain name
From: eric (enave_at_m-net.arbornet.org)
Date: 02/26/04
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 09:29:11 -0800
Hi. I'd like to expose a few documents so that employees can very
easily access them at home. My idea is to use iis and ssl. That way,
the employees could just use their web browsers to get the documents,
but still be sure the connection was secure.
I do not want to pay a certificate authority for this. There's no
reason for me to. Whatever certificate I get I can just distribute to
the employees on floppy disk and let them install it at home.
Also, I tried getting a temporary demo certificate from verisign but I
don't have a domain name pointing to this server, and I don't plan to
point one to it either. The employees can just type https://IPAddy/
So the question is, can I generate my own certificate? Can I make
this certificate work without pointing a domain name at the server?
BTW, I'm sure there are other secure ways to let employees access
documents. But this seems to me to be the most simple. After all,
everyone has a web browser and they all know how to use it.
Thx in advance
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