Well, I can poke around on my own workstation and get answers that apply to it. Not sure about your setup. openSSL first... In /etc, I found my openssl.cnf file. It says:
So now I know where my openSSL certs are stored. Those directories are empty as I expected. I don't know anyone who actually uses openSSL. But openSSL has a magnificient crypto library. Everybody installs openSSL to get access to that library. It is a prerequisite to openSSH. This leads people to think that SSH uses SSL, but it doesn't. The openSSH guys just did not want to rewrite that crypto library.
Since my openSSH cert database is empty but my firefox can talk https, a reasonable guess is that firefox must use its own database. The docs say it is per user and stored under .mozilla somewhere in a file called cert8.db. It needs to get seeded with a list of trusted top-level guys. I don't know how firefox does that. I hope it calls home at profile creation time to get the most recent list from firefox.com.
A much more interesting question is how does someone become a trusted top level certificate authority? So for example, where Go-Daddy decided to get into the business, how do they get themselves added to the list? To phrase it another way, if I wrote a new browser, how would I get a definative list? (besides just copying a list from a pre-existing browser) If anyone knows, please post a followup.
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I'm trying to install SSL Certificate on Apache/mod_ssl on Linux with Zend for Oracle.
I bought and downloaded certificate from certificate from Network Solutions. Than I followed the instructions to the dot.
I created a directory for certificate... (2 Replies)
Dear All
Anyone know how to issue two different certification on apache virtualhost fyi i have one virtualhost eg 69.192.1.25:443 already signed with verisign how can i configure another virtualhost 69.192.1.25:443 which signing with another certificate which self signing. i search net not... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am new in UNIX, and some one asks me to install SSL certificates to allow exchange with an external system.
Can someone tell how to install certificate (ex : verisignxxx.cer) on a UNIX server?
Many thanks.
Tibo (4 Replies)
Hi guys.
I have some questions about ssl certificates.
I looked at SSL providers and saw that they are providing 2 types of certificates: per server or per domain.
my server host name is: srv1.example.com
I have a smtp, imap, web server on this box. but all services accessed by different... (1 Reply)
we are doing TCP for our systems. I have a working SSL certificate on prodction webserver. Im planning to export it to our DR server for TCP purposes. However when I export based on the procedure below, it doesn't work. When I restart the DR webserver, it still says the certifcate is expired.Any... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to renew the ssl certificate for one of my application on tomcat without down time. I want to know what would the possible impacts for the users who currently have sessions to the app.
Regards,
Arumon (1 Reply)
Hi,
I was trying to enable SSL cert on WebLogic 10.3 (CentOS),
I don't have a third party Certificate Authority(C.A) to get the .csr file certified.
Is there an alternate way that replaces the step sending .csr file to CA ?
Thanks
SZS (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
I'm trying to generate a key using the genkey command in centos 6.4 and RHEL6.4, Every thing seems to go cool but I get this error message bad certificate request error -8016 and no key/cert is generated. I don't want use the many openssl(s) commands instead since genkey is a shourtcut... (4 Replies)
Hello!
I had a cron job running on my website, activating a php script every friday. The Php script just activated another photo to add in the gallery. It worked fine until I got an SSL certificate for my website, then everything broke.
This was the command before:
lynx -source... (0 Replies)