Re: [SAGE] Are cheap SSL certificates legitimate?

["Julian C. Dunn" <jdunn@aquezada.com>]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Alexander Lobodzinski wrote:

> () At my work we have several internal websites which we serve over SSL
> () with self-signed certificates.  Users complain about the annoyance of
> () having to approve loading these sites in their browser every time.
>
> I cannot comment on namecheap.com, but did you consider creating a root 
> certificate (valid 15 years or so) and use that to sign the various 
> web/imap/smtp site certificates?  Then every user has to load your root 
> cert once and that's it.

I think that what the OP is saying is that he doesn't want to make every 
user load a custom root certificate, possibly because of the size of his 
installed base or for other reasons.

- Julian

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