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Re: Distribution of Authentication Certificates



I move this over to Debian-Devel. 

Discussing how to ship X.509 and TLS/SSL certifiactes within the debian
package infrastructure.

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:35:00PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> TLS/SSL is a perfectly fine protocol with self-signed certificates.

Unfortunatelly it does not support named based virtual hosts, and the
current implementation of browsers which check the cn instead of displaying
the dn is a bit flawed. But otherwise you are right, it is ok for connection
security.

Gretings
Bernd
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