On 13.7.2004, at 18:17, Colin Walters wrote:
The major problem I ran into was getting my dad and some of my friend's Windows machines to trust my CA. It involved a lot of complexity with this "mmc" program. Not to mention my dad has multiple machines, one of them at his office that I didn't have access to. The rest of my friends use Linux as I do, but even there configuring different applications to trust a certificate isn't easy.
Adding new CAs is actually pretty easy in Windows. You right click it, "install certificate", place it into "Trusted root certificates" and click ok/next a few times.
I have no idea how to do it in Linux though. Does OpenSSL have some hardcoded root certificates directory, or does each program handle it in it's own way? Before Evolution used to ask me constantly about my certificate, and lazy as I were I just clicked "ok". Nowadays it seems to be silent, maybe one day it started remembering it.