Re: Setting up good certs for ports/mail/imap-uw?

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 07/30/04

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To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@whatexit.org>

    Tom Limoncelli wrote:
    > The instructions for ports/mail/imap-uw tell you that "make cert"
    > generates certs that are self-signed and warns you that it is better to
    > get "real" certs but doesn't explain how to do that. Any suggestions?

    "real" certs are ones signed by a well-known registrar like Verisign, EnTrust,
    Thawte, etc. To get one, you generate a CSR (certificate signing request) as
    done in "make cert", only you send that CSR to the registrar and pay them to
    sign it, very much like one does when getting a "real" SSL cert to do HTTPS.

    There is nothing magic about the well-known registrars, except that their CA
    certificates already ship as pre-trusted with the email clients and web
    browsers that most people use. 

    -- 
-Chuck
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