Re: a refresher

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com)
Date: 04/07/03 

From: jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com (Jeff Cochran)
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 20:15:34 GMT

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 19:30:47 +0100, "baffled"
<timvieweg101@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>hi, this is to recap on an earlier question posted. If you run a
>stand-alone(root) with a microsoft cert/your company) CA do you make the ca
>web pages available on the internet as clients are not domain memebers. If
>so, isn't this acting like a company like versign, not just a company
>wishing to secure client/server comms.

Except that Verisgn et. al. are trusted authorities, meaning the user
isn't prompted with a dialog to download a certificate and a warning
that a non-trusted certificate may not be safe.

>Also isn't it insecure even if you used SSL, to be transmitting certs over
>the net.

Insecure how? I guess everything is insecure that's transmitted, to a
point, since if you never transmit anything over the internet it can't
be intercepted. Except that even if you intercepted the SSL you
couldn't do anything with it.

Jeff

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