From: Bob Snyder <rsnyder@janet.advsys.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 95 13:17:32 PDT
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: SSLRef (SSLtelnet)
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hfinney@shell.portal.com said:
> 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? 

RSA will give out certificates to individuals; Apple includes a coupon for a 
free one with their MacOS 7.5 (and 7 Pro) release.  There's a program for the 
Mac (RIPEM Mac) that will convert the keys returned into RIPEM usable 
PEM-format keys.  Isn't that what SSL uses?

The only question is what CAs are supported by the browser....  I think the 
Apple keys are under RSA's Unaffiliated User CA...

If there's interest, I'll look further into this.

Bob