Re: does a school or company webserver need a TTP or a CA?

From: Pamela (pamela.kalle_at_kahosl.be)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:24:59 +0200

I'm beginning to understand,

just one thing

Pandora is an internet-provider in Belgium, they also provide e-mail-boxes
for their clients.
Luckely they also work with SSL.
The webmail-site is to be found at https://webmail.pandora.be

When you go to this site you get the famous pop up window. When you choose
view certificate you see on the top of the hierarchie the Certificate
Organisation :
"Global Sign Root CA"

When I look in my internet options to my certificates, I find this one in
the list of trustes basic certificates-organisations.

You should expect that I shouldn't get the pop-up window?

I even looked at the Id-code in both cases I found the code: 02 00 00 00
00 00 d6 78 b7 94 05

The only thing I can think about that it has something to do with a notion
on the pop-up window.
There is an explanation mark before the sentence (the name on the
certifacate is not the same as the name off the website).
is this the reason for the pop-up window or am I loosing something here?

thx for earlier (and maybe future) help

Pamela

"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> schreef in bericht
news:413ace86.683648244@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:44:39 +0200, "Pamela" <pamela.kalle@kahosl.be>
> wrote:
>
> >if I think about it, a Trusted Third Party or certification service is
only
> >needed when you want to make clear to the visitors of your website that
the
> >certificate that is offered is from a trustful party.
> >
> >When you built a school (or company) netwerk and you offer a certificate
for
> >logging in on a secure part of your website, by means of a download on
the
> >home page, the visitors will be certain that that kind of certificate
> >belongs to you.
> >
> >In this case: why should you use a third party?
>
> Because trusted certs are automatically accepted by the browser and
> you don't have to tell users to say "yes" to adding an untrusted
> certificate.
>
> Jeff

Relevant Pages