[clue-tech] CAcert issues

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Sat Apr 2 16:36:04 MST 2005


Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> I just looked at it and CACertificateFile is equal to CertificateFile.  
> So, I don't know what that means.

It means you're a d-i-y CA and you're using the CA root certificate for 
your server certificate.  Since the two are the same you can't expire or 
revoke the server cert without doing the same to the CA.

Practically, if you did this for 100 web sites I'd have to tell my 
browser to trust each cert individually.  If you had made a separate CA 
cert and signed your server cert with that, I could add the CA cert to 
my browser's trust list and it would trust the 100 server certs 
automatically.

Dave



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