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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html