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Re: best encryption over http



On Sunday 20 April 2003 00:12, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote:
> whats the best encryption over http, does it require a costly certificate?

If you want SSL encryption (you probably do since it's about the only 
widespread HTTP-supported encryption scheme), you can create the certificate 
yourself. The apache-ssl package will step you through that procedure upon 
installation. The only downside of this is that a visitor will be told that 
the certificate isn't signed by any known CA. This doesn't weaken protection 
in itself but may hurt the trust your visitors put in the site since the 
warnings most browsers pop up upon being offered an untrusted certificate are 
rather drastic.

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