RE: [SLUG] SSL certificates portable ?

["hilton de meillon" <hiltond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I just spoke to a support at instantssl.com and they reckon you can create a
csr on a win/iis box and 
Install the resultant certificate on an linux/apache box.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jamie Wilkinson
Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 2004 1:49 PM
To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLUG] SSL certificates portable ?

This one time, at band camp, Hilton De Meillon wrote:
>Are SSL certificates portable ?. I want to generate a CSR  on a IIS 
>machine and use it to produce a certificate that will be used on an 
>Linux/Apache 1.3.12-12 box (obviously with the correct fqdn ,etc)

The SSL cert vendor takes the CSR in text format, and the certificate / key
pair are also text files, so it will work.

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