[Sussex] SSL

[Dominic Clay]

Well, yes, Certification would have to be done officially, the connection
would be for an external web mail system used for contractors and financial
partners, etc to have internal mail access without giving them a vpn.

Dominic


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Harrison" <mark.harrison at ekingfisher.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] SSL


Is self-certification a big problem given the application is mail
access?



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Turner [mailto:pkturner at f2s.com]
Sent: 7 January 2003 21:51
To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
Cc: dominic.clay at europrospectus.com
Subject: Re: [Sussex] SSL


Dominic,

I did this a while back on Redhat 6.2 and Apache.  It involved
downloading the source for Apache and OpenSSL and compiling them both.
If your lucky there might be an rpm out there with SSL support already,
but I couldn't find one at the time.

You do not have to purchase a certificate, you can create your own, but
then you are authenticating yourself which is fine for testing or
internal only access.

There is some fairly good documentation in a book that I have at work.
"Linux Apache Web Server Administration" by Charle Aulds.  See here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782141374/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1
/026-7439741-5084463 for more info.  I have a copy at work which I'll
happily lend you, but I'm off till next week so I can't get it before
then.

Hope this helps you.

Paul.

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 14:48:21 -0000
Dominic Clay <dominic.clay at europrospectus.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> With my attempt to introduce some form of web mail access here, there
> becomes a requirement for SSL.
>
> I know nothing about SSL, apart from:
>
> 1.It is slow big stylee
> and 2.I need to pay for a certificate...
>
> Anyone know a good internet resource for a informative (and clear!)
> read on the subject? (Maybe SSL could be our next chat/seminar at the
> meet.... I vote for SSL :)
> )
>
> Cheers,
> Dominic
>
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