[KLUG Members] certificates

[Bert]

Tony Gettig wrote:

>I was looking through the ever handy and readily available list archives at
>http://kalamazoolinux.org this morning for posts on this subject. 
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>Bruce, are you still using comodo.net for your certificates? Is anyone using
>thawte? 
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yes I am, just renewed the cert this morning for another year.

>I may be having need of web server certs soon, but I'm also very
>interested in the personal email certs. 
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you can use no more than one web-cert per server. On Apache that is. 
Don't know for others.

>As long as I'm kind of on the subject, what are peoples thoughts on using
>certificates versus PGP for signing and securing email?
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I think you could generate your own certs just as easy. I don't see that 
many advantages in using a cert from one or another certifying company.  
If your customars do trust you, you can use any cert.

For email I should use pgp. Certainly if you only want to secure mail to 
and fro any known user.

>Tony Gettig
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