Paul Jakma, Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:33:21PM +0000:
> > https://mail.investici.org/ - this is a cert signed by a non-known
> > certification authority
> > https://www.ecn.org/ - this is a self-signed certificate
> Hmm... no, I mean a certificate signed by a key which itself has its
> cert signed by a CA.
mmhm... Certs released from known CAs, say verisign, thawte, whatever,
usually can't be used for that purpose. Or I'm losing myself in
translating your lines to my language :)
> Though, the browser only has CA cert and cert the current HTTPS
> server is presenting to it, there's no protocol to retrieve unknown
> certs.
no, there isn't, afaik.
> This sounds like a job for DNS doesnt it? :)
mmmmh... or ldap...
p.
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