On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Frank LaRosa wrote:
> The question I have is regarding Verisign. My customer wants to be able
> to use a Verisign certificate with the server, but I found out that
> Verisign will not issue certificates except for products on their
> registered list.
>
> My question: Can I obtain a Verisign certificate for a registered
> product (say, Microsoft Internet Information Server, which I have) and
> then use that certificate with SSLeay?
While not saying that you should do somthing that violates the conditions that
Verisign put on use of their certificates, people definitly are doing this :-
).
The other option it to look at geting a certificate from www.thwate.com.
They don't have any such restriction and the CAs are found in MSIE and NS.
eric
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