On 21/08/2012 15:47, Greg Bailey wrote:
On 8/21/2012 7:39 AM, John Doe wrote:
From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Just FYI
I guess, you could also run your own CA and sign stuff yourself.
After all, your RPMs are also self-signed ;-)
But that means the browsers will complain until each user permanently adds
this untrusted certificate manually... which might be no big deal if only a
few ttech savy people are using this sub-domain...
If CentOS is "rich", a wildcard certificate costs around $120/year,
maybe cheaper...
Or $0/year at startssl.com...
-Greg
I use startssl.com - and generally it is fine... I have however had a
problem.
Someone recently sent an email in my name (but not from my email
address) asking for my certificate to be revoked to the startssl
certmaster. The startssl certmaster went ahead and revoked my
certificate, this caused me a fair amount of pain, and obviously there
is little cross-verification done against this type of
social-engineering attack.
I have been told that it is unlikely to happen again (because my account
now has red flags all over it), but if you use certificates for anything
serious you might want to use an organisation that has enough funding to
perform some cross-verification against such attacks..
--
Regards,
Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS
NetSecSpec Ltd
+44 (0) 7983 877438
http://www.coochey.net
http://www.netsecspec.co.uk
giles@xxxxxxxxxxx
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