| Miha Pihler [MVP] 2005-07-27, 5:54 pm |
| Hi,
Does client use certificate for authentication?
There is a tool called SelfSSL that you can download from Microsoft that
will issue certificate for SSL but not for user authentication.
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Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
"John @ X" <JohnX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BCC20EF3-DA6E-4C25-AF35-DD398D4A8F39@microsoft.com...
> Hi there,
> We have a tomcat servlet container which runs in the context of HTTPS. We
> have created a self signed certificate using keytool and this is stored in
> the tomcat environment (this certificate has the expiration date as well).
> We
> are having a client which basically is an applet which connects to the
> server
> and gets authenticated. The client certificates are stored in the client
> machine. In one scanerio the client and server have an expired
> certificates.
> In that case we need to renew these certificates somehow. Is there any way
> to
> automate the renewal of certificates using someother mechanism than
> putting
> in tomcat. My question is: Is it possible to do these things in IIS
> environment? I dont want to get a CA to issue a certificate. I want to
> have
> self signed certificate and authenticate the user to access the servlet
> container. Please help me in this regards
> Thanks
> John
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