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Melissa Perry of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU>
wrote on 09/25/2008 09:38:03 AM:

> I am looking for the best way to handle digital certificates and TN3270
> emulation.  I am in the process of implementing SSL on Telnet.  I have
> generated a certauth and a certsign certificate through acf2.  Both of
these
> certificates were imported onto a workstation and are functioning as they

> should be.  My concern is, certificates having to be imported to each
> workstation that connects to the mainframe.  What is the industry
standard
> for implementing certificates for this?

I don't think you have to implicitly "import" the certificate to each 3270
workstation.  The SSL handshake initiated by the 3270 client should request
the server's digital certificate.

Regards,
John K

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