--On Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:39 pm -0700 Tor Slettnes <tor@???>
wrote:
> On a side note, a one-size-fit-all "secure" authentication scheme is
> somewhat of an elusive target. Your options are:
>
> - TLS/SSL. Unfortunately, this requires that you get a SSL
> server certificate from a "trusted" CA, such as Verisign
> (this can be expensive for smaller / non-commerical outfits),
They're somewhat cheaper from Thawte, I think. <
http://www.thawte.com/>
> or that you sign with your own CA, and then guide your users
> through installing your root certificate in various OSes/clients
> (i.e. Windows/Outlook Express, Windows/Mozilla, Mac OS X Keychain..)
> -tor
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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS
