delegating SSL certificates

[Bill Squier]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Leichter, Jerry wrote:

> | >> So at the company I work for, most of the internal systems have
> | >> expired SSL certs, or self-signed certs.  Obviously this is bad.
> | >
> | >You only think this is bad because you believe CAs add some value.
> |
> | Presumably the value they add is that they keep browsers from  
> popping
> | up scary warning messages....
> Apple's Mail.app checks certs on SSL-based mail server connections.
> It has the good - but also bad - feature that it *always* asks for
> user approval if it gets a cert it doesn't like.

Fixed in Leopard.  Certificate handling in general appears to be  
better -- although I can't be sure Tiger didn't let you fiddle with  
fine-grained entitlements as to when to trust a cert.

-wps

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