On Fri February 24 2012, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-
> > us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Michael S. Zick
> >
> > You must be new to mailing lists also.
> > Start your own thread, they are cheap here, don't hijack another topic.
>
> Mike, How do you call that a thread hijack? New subject, new thread id...
> I don't see how it was a thread hijack.
>
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> Hector, I wish I had a good resource to send your way. My experience has
> been like this: Years ago when I didn't know anything about generating or
> installing certs, I just found some random webpages about how to generate
> self-signed certs and I copied them brainlessly, but gained some
> familiarity. Later I wanted to have trusted signed certs, so I paid for
> services such as godaddy and thawte, and brainlessly followed their
> instructions, but gained further experience. More recently, I'm a fan of
> startssl.com.
>
> Often when I do this sort of stuff, the instructions written by whoever are
> slightly too specific, or the starting point or resources available to you
> at the time are slightly different. The industry keeps evolving a little
> bit. Targets move.
>
> For example, in a cisco ASA, last year I generated a csr, and got it signed.
> This year I went to regenerate and renew, but I found the ASA is only
> capable of signing using md5sum, which is no longer acceptable by the
> certificate authority, so even though I'm doing precisely the same task as I
> did 1 year ago, I can't follow the same process anymore.
>
> Hopefully someone can refer you to a good introductory set of materials, but
> I think most likely, you'll find too often something isn't written precisely
> for what you need, or something else has changed.
>
> I suggest you basically just start experimenting and learning. Ask
> questions here when you get stuck. The more exposure you give yourself, the
> better you'll learn.
>
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