certificate issuing for mail list users

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Fri Apr 27 16:58:17 UTC 2007


On Friday 27 April 2007 09:48:15 Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 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.

This is the direction I feel we need to go and am  wondering if someone had 
already created a package with the necessary ingredients. If not we will do 
it ourselves. It would be nice if it already existed!!! Hence my question.

Thanks for getting back to me - sorry for the earlier confusion

david


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