Re: Acquiring Certificates

From: Ken Schaefer (kenREMOVE_at_THISadopenstatic.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:54:57 +1100

If you want something that's trusted by the general public, then try one of
the cheaper public CAs, like Geotrust: www.geotrust.com

If this is just for internal use, or your own use, then you can either:
a) create a self-signed certificate using SelfSSL from the IIS Resource Kit
tools [1]
    -or-
b) setup MS Certificate Services [2]

Cheers
Ken

[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=en
[2] http://support.microsoft.com/?id=299525

"rjolivie" <rjolivie@ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
news:C9C89334-7532-4227-9CF6-66972FF4FE32@microsoft.com...
>I have gone through the request for certificate wizard in IIS.
>
> It's not really clear about who to send the request to. I went to
> Verisign's website and purchasing a certificate is EXPENSIVE!!!
>
> Is there anyway to do this free or cheap? How can I get a free/cheap
> certificate???
>
> Thanks
> Ryan

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