On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 06:26:49PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > It is close enough for most things. There are services that do not > require SSL, and then there are some that SSL would be a good thing. For > example, things bugzilla does not need SSL (IMO :) as well as "shopping > carts". What you need SSL is for things like credit card processing or > login in into your remote box. > > But then *I* do not need or want a third party to have a telnet > replacement. As for other services, well, do not provide access to them > from unencrypted traffic. Set up IPSec between your boxes. Self sign the > cert. and be done with it (you do trust yourself, don't you? :) > > But if you need a "real" cert. (eg. credit card processing), then you > should be able to buy the cert since it is "only" ~$200. You can get a trusted cert from instantssl.com for as little as $33. Their CA is trusted by all windows/osx/linux software I've tried. -- sam clegg :: sam@superduper.net :: http://superduper.net/ :: PGP : D91EE369 $superduper: .signature,v 1.13 2003/06/17 10:29:24 sam Exp $
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