Once again, I find myself on a DVD authoring kick. The only difference is that this time I have a wiki for all my notes. If you are interested in DVD authoring in a 100% Linux environment, then you might want to check out my DVD Authoring area in my wiki. (Yeah, yeah, just accept the SSL cert. I'll have to get a Thawte cert one of these days.)
Posted by enigma at September 2, 2005 02:04 PMThawte?
Rather than a self-signed, why don't you use an open certificate authority. Then at least your frequent users can add that CA and not have to accept the cert.
I have been using http://www.cacert.org/ for most of my services and simply tell people to install their root cert (which is actualy quite easy in modern browsers). Just generate an csr, have them sign it, and your off.
I have never joined the web of trust with them, so I can only issue 6 months certs, but its super easy to renew. (and easier than maintaining your own CA environment).
They haven't convinced Mozilla to add it to their default CA's, but if more of our group of friends used them at least that would be a start.
Posted by: jamesj at September 3, 2005 10:37 AMJames, I think you may have mentioned cacert.org to me a long time ago. All I could remember was something about a "web of trust". I thought that's what Thawte's personal certificate were all about. I'm glad to hear there is an open CA. I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the pointer.
Posted by: Christoph Neumann at September 9, 2005 01:06 PM