I would like to get a Signed Request but I don't want a $50,000
amazon.com certificate, just a free, private certificate for someone
learning like a student cert or private citizen cert if there is such a
thing. Is there any free signing agencies out there that will sign a
certificate that IE or Firefox will accept without question for a small
personal website? If so how do I contact them and what is the procedure
for such a thing. Otherwise I will take whatever advice you can give.
Thank you.

http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-ssl-certificate
.html Draw back is that it's limited to 30 days trail and I would
guess you can't create a new free one for the domain after that.
In the long run it's either a payed certificate or a self certificated
that you have to use.

I don't recommend surfing with MSIE, too many exploits and it has the
stupidity to not accept certs from smaller companies, as it thinks
they are less secure certifiers than the five big ones.


Sorry, disabled your follow-up, otherwise others won't see that you
got some reply.

Secure Connection Failed
www.fubar.com uses an invalid security certificate.

You don't own fubar.com. It's owned by Social
Concepts in Menlo Park, California.

The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed.

This line is not returned by fubar.com. However,
it IS returned from your domain, ohmster.com. Why
did you think it was necessary to substitute someone
else's domain name for your own? If you think
security through obscurity works, at least use an
invalid domain name rather than someone else's.

The certificate is only valid for fubar.com

(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)

http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-ssl-certificate
.html Draw back is that it's limited to 30 days trail and I would
guess you can't create a new free one for the domain after that.
In the long run it's either a payed certificate or a self certificated
that you have to use.

I will proably do a self cert again like I did before. I remember finding a
tutorial on the net somewhere that told how to do it, I will have to try
and find it again. genkey is not getting it done or at least I don't know
how to place the files right when I try it so I am doing something wrong.

Here is a script I made a while ago, not sure it's the final version,
make it executable and you have an easy way to make a ssl cert for
apache, I suggest a fast read of the page which is mentioned, so you
know how it works in detail.

"J.O. Aho" <user at (no spam) example.net> wrote in news:6v219bFhmdpbU1
at (no spam) mid.individual.net:

Here is a script I made a while ago, not sure it's the final version,
make it executable and you have an easy way to make a ssl cert for
apache, I suggest a fast read of the page which is mentioned, so you
know how it works in detail.

Wow, excellent Aho. Thank you very much. I will study and keep this one.
I used this page to get by but your script rocks. I love stuff like this,
thanks buddy!
http://www.yatblog.com/2007/02/27/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate/

I used to have a page once in the old day which I followed when I made
my first certs, but after that I didn't use ssl for a long time, last
year I had to make some server installs at work and decided to update
the certs and I had trouble to find a good howto at first and when I at
last found one that was easy to understand, I decided to make my script
as I'm sure when it's time to update the certs, the person who has to do
it won't have much clue and it will be easier if they check out the
script from the CVS.

I'm glad that at least one other person has had use of it.