Re: Obtaining an SSL (test) certificate

From: Ohaya (ohaya_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/03/03 

Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 02:26:46 -0400

Thomas,

It sounds like the server that you're working with has configured
Verisign as a trusted CA, and possibly, only Verisign. In that case,
you'll need to get a client certificate from that same trusted CA, i.e.,
from Verisign. Here're a few pointers:

http://www.verisign.com/products/class1/index.html

Digital ID Enrollment:
http://www.verisign.com/client/enrollment/index.html

The actual enrollment form (you can request a 60-day free trial here):
https://digitalid.verisign.com/client/class1MS.htm

The last pointer will take you through the steps to request the client
cert from Verisign, get the cert, and install it on your client.

Jim

"Thomas Nielsen [AM Production A/S]" wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm working on a client that needs to communicate securely with a server
> over SSL. The server needs to be able to authenticate me, so I need to be
> able to present it with a certificate from a root CA - And not just with any
> certificate I've issued myself.
>
> I've been informed that a Verisign test certificate will work fine, but I'm
> unsure how to actually obtain + install this into my Windows certificate
> store.
> I know how this works with IIS (generate CSR, request certificate, import
> into IIS), but how do you do this when your certificate is not for IIS?.
> Could the same procedure be used? (Generate CSR from IIS, request
> certificate, manually import certificate into "Certificates (Local
> Computer)/personal/certificates", os should this be handled differently?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /Thomas

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