SSL

[Netwrkengeer]

What are my options for setting up SSL, I'm running FreeBSD/Apache.

Is OpenSSL an acceptable SSL certificate "

http://www.openssl.org"

What is "CA"

Do you know of any Free solutions to SSL, and what are my SSL requirments.

 

[chiph]

OpenSSL works fine.

CA is "Certificate Authority", that is, a respected and trusted company that issues certificates.

You want to make sure that you use a CA whose root certificate (the one that all their issued certificates are tied to) is included in the browser that most of your users use. Otherwise your users will have to tweak their browser settings to accept the root cert. (basically everyone would have to say "I trust this certificate&quot. Easily done, but annoying for them. Plus there's always the 3% of people who somehow manage to screw it up.

Chip H.