To get a certificate, you need to talk to Verisign, and give them a business plan, a key, and 270 bucks per year to get your key certified. Verisign is a spin off of RSA. | The stumbling block is that Netscape won't connect to even the local | proxy unless it sees a valid certificate, one signed by a CA that it | accepts. For this application I would need such a certificate, and make | the corresponding public and private keys public, hard-coding them into | the proxy. Since the proxy runs on the same PC as the browser there is | no need for confidentiality between them, and the secret key can be | revealed. | | Does anyone have an idea for a way to acquire a certificate acceptable to | Netscape, perhaps one with a "broken key", that could be used for this | purpose? | | Hal | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume