-- On 7 Jun 2003 at 19:05, Dave Howe wrote:
issuing certs to someone is trivial from both a server and a user endpoint - the user just gets a "click here to request your key" and hits ok on a few dialog boxes; the server simply hosts some pretty off-the-shelf cgi. [...] its surprisingly reliable and easy - particuarly if your end users are just using the MS keystore, which requires them to do no more than double-click the pkcs file and hit "next" a few times.
This sounds more like what I was looking for. Probably someone has already pointed out the url to this, but if they did, I when I looked at it I was snowed under by verisign oriented shit, which assumes a large budget and ample administrator time for face to face contact with certified people, a very small number of clients, some hours of work by each client, a manual, user training, etc, and failed to grasp it. Could you point me somewhere that illustates server issued certs, certification with zero administrator overhead and small end user overhead? Also, I have many times heard that public key operations were surprisingly easy, and have been key administrator for several companies, and have unfailingly found that I was the only person capable of doing these operations at that company. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG v6gZFuZoUgyGH55ME+JoilJSfw5LrufrbWWB454U 4FhiB65yyXwp1RgeJrLADfEYBoqz0YAch8fJ0Fisp --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com