Guest Herb Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 I currently use a digital certificate generated from my domain server to authenticate connections to ISA Server and encrypt traffic between site-to-site VPNs. Now I need an SSL cert to use for a website. Can I generate that from my domain server also? If so, how does this compare to an SSL cert that you purchase from a third party vendor? Thank you, stullhe104 -- stullhe104 Quote
Guest Vadim Rapp Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Anyone can generate a certificate, the question is, who will trust it. If you are using certificate between your computer A and your computer B, you generate your own certificate and tell A and B to trust it. But you can't force others to trust it. Others trust commonly-known certification aithorities, so called root certificates, and down the tree from them. So 3rd party can be expected to trust only certificate that belongs to that tree - yours does not. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority "...the market for SSL certificates (used for website security) is largely held by a small number of multinational companies. This market has significant barriers to entry since new providers must convince web browser developers to include them in the list of trusted authorities in future versions of the browser, and there is no automated means to add trusted authorities to older versions. Thus there is an effective oligopoly of approximately 20 root certificates that are already trusted in the most popular versions of the most popular web browsers. " Vadim Rapp Polyscience www.polyscience.com "Herb" <stullhe104@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message news:255C7662-C123-4A79-8185-172C7AECDEA1@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> >I currently use a digital certificate generated from my domain server to > authenticate connections to ISA Server and encrypt traffic between > site-to-site VPNs. > > Now I need an SSL cert to use for a website. Can I generate that from my > domain server also? If so, how does this compare to an SSL cert that you > purchase from a third party vendor? > > Thank you, stullhe104 > -- > stullhe104 </span> Quote
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