Re: Certificate Authority

["Ivan Fernandez" <spambox () home com>]

Depends what you are looking for... are you looking for a CA offering certs
as a service such as Verisign or GTE Cybertrust?  Or are you looking to roll
your own using products such as Entrust, Netscape Cert server, Xcert, etc?

Either way, point you browser to
http://www.data.com/roundups/certificate.html for a review of CA service
providers and product vendors.

You are supposed to assess a CA trustworthiness by reading their CP and CPS
documents (provided you can stay awake while trying to get through them).
If you are looking at a service provider look for these docs.

Ivan Fernandez
Network Architect
GeoTrain Corp
ifernandez () geotrain com


-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Lucas <kdlucas () netscape com>
To: Moses, Ikoedem <Ikoedem_Moses () afcc com>
Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net <firewall-wizards () nfr net>
Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Certificate Authority


> Ikoedem,
>
> Moses, Ikoedem wrote:
>
> > I will like to have  an independent evaluation of some CAs. Can someone
> > point me  to where  I can get the information. Thanks.
> >
> > Ikoedem Moses
> > Security Engineer
> > Associates First Capital Corporation
>
> I don't know of one that has been done.
>
> Verisign is probably one of the most prolific CA's.
>
> kdl
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