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Pawan Komaram
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What are the different types of SSL certificates? which one to use to trust a client? are there something like SSL client certificates? Here my requirement is, my server should accept only the requests that are coming in from a trusted clients (end-users), for this I want to issue a cleint certificate for desired clients...how to achieve this? Are there any authoriies who is issuing this kind of certificates ( like verisign, entruts...etc), if so what is the type of that certificate?
Pawan Komaram
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can anyone help on this?
Tim Moores
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I think most of that is answered here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
Pawan Komaram
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Actually I need to use this certificate for client authentication in place of standard authentication (user name, password)? Whom should I approach to get this kind of certificate? and then wanted to share this certificate with my desired users.
Pawan Komaram
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I am talking about PKI service offerings by CA's....can some one tell me how exactly this PKI works for client authentication?
Pawan Komaram
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is there someone to help?
Tim Holloway
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Pawan Komaram wrote:is there someone to help?


Yes, but asking more often won't get answers any faster. Since we don't get paid to do this, we're not standing by 24x7, just checking in when it's convenient. Patience is a Virtue, as our FAQ points out.

Once again, the WikiPedia is a good place to start. It even has pretty pictures:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure

One of the most odious afflictions that Business has inflicted on the modern English language is "pro-active". Most of the time it's simply redundantly used in place of the simple old word "active". And a good deal of the rest of the time it means "You're not overworked enough yet, so go out and find more!"
Pawan Komaram
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I dont mind paying Mr. Tim, anyway thank you all for your replies.
 
 
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