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RE: SSL Server IDs
From: "Bruce Davis" <talesian () istop com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:53:26 -0500
In my company I had the unfortunate issue an insistance from above to use Verisign, however the good news is that Verisign has a program where if you are getting a significant number of certs and are willing to pay up front you can get a discount on the price as well as being able to issue them yourself through a website application. This is handy if you have a rough idea of how many you're going to need but the renewals occur through out the year. I would image that the other companies must have something similar. Believe me it's real handy to have on a weekend when one of your sites goes down because it uses a cert that you weren't told about and there's no manager about to make the purchase of the cert for you. I realise it doesn't answer your question but it does give you an additional feature to ask about when choosing a vendor. -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Diotte [mailto:xphox () xphox net] Sent: November 18, 2003 1:02 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: SSL Server IDs Good afternoon list, I've been asked to find a way to enable SSL on all our products, the problem is they are spread accross multiple servers, and devices. Based on my current knowledge, I would assume that it is okay for me to self sign, and generate my own certificates. However the powers that be, do not want to have to confirm a message box each time they close their browser. So my question is the following: What is the difference between certificates? You can pay $400.00 for a VeriSign SuperCert, you can pay $99.00 from DirectNic, and you can generate them yourself. What are the advantages of going with VeriSign, vs. a smaller company. And what are the disadvantages of generating your own. Also, 2nd questions: Why not have a wildcard certificate? *.domain.org. And can you use the wildcard certificate on multiple devices. So I guess, can you copy the same key on multiple servers? This environment contains multiple webservers, mostly IIS, but some Apache. Thanks, Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forum Systems PRESIDIO: PGP / XML GATEWAY APPLIANCE The Presidio integrates PGP data encryption and XML Web Services security to simplify the management and deployment of PGP and reduce overall PGP costs by up to 80%. FREE WHITEPAPER & 30 Day Trial - http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/ForumSystems_security-basics_031027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- SSL Server IDs Nicholas Diotte (Nov 18)
- RE: SSL Server IDs Bruce Davis (Nov 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: SSL Server IDs ty kirk (Nov 19)
- RE: SSL Server IDs Glenn Pearl (Nov 20)
- Re: SSL Server IDs Steve (Nov 20)
- Re: SSL Server IDs Anders Reed-Mohn (Nov 24)
- Re: SSL Server IDs Todd (Nov 25)
- Re: SSL Server IDs Jimi Thompson (Nov 25)
- RE: SSL Server IDs Glenn Pearl (Nov 20)
- RE: SSL Server IDs dave kleiman (Nov 21)