certificate issuing for mail list users

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Apr 27 16:48:17 UTC 2007


On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:52 AM, David Southwell wrote:
> I now moving on from that point and want to know if someone has  
> built a web
> interface that enables people to request certificates and supply  
> them so as
> to integrate certificate issuing into the total problem solution. I  
> do not
> think any of the replies I received to my earlier question was  
> focused on
> answering this question.. unless I missed something.

Some clients provide that capability:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME
   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_an_SMIME_certificate

If that isn't enough, you can create your own CA and do the PKI  
yourself, but it is a fair amount of work and requires a decent  
understanding of digital certificates.

-- 
-Chuck



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