Re: how to secure a commercial web site

[Sean Radford <sradford () bladesystems co uk>]

While not directly appripriate to the thread... It's a shame the Simple
Public Key Infrastructure isn't in widespread use.

I don't suppose anyone knows of any SSL (or SSH) implementations that
support it?

Sean

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 17:17, Jeffrey Weiss wrote:
> You can generate your own CA for free, and sign the site cert against
> this  CA, but it won't be recognized by the browser and therefore is not
> trusted.
> If you're doing commerce this is not good enough.
> It will work for ensuring encrypted communications, but not "trust".
> You have to pay for trust; the security part is free.
> Jeffrey
>
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 04:11, info () biledge com wrote:
> > hi,
> > i am trying to secure -SSL certificated- a commercial web site without using verisign, global 
> > sign, etc. it seems there is a monopoly an i want to be out of it. does anyone know a better 
> > way to secure the web site or do i have to pay money, (even) for security ?   
> > regards, bilur
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Dr. Sean Radford, MBBS, MSc
sradford () bladesystems co uk
http://bladesys.demon.co.uk/