Re: howto x.509 certification in GER

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From: Igor Tandetnik (itandetnik_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/12/04


Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:19:14 -0400


"Frank Kuhn" <frank_kuhn@freenet.de> wrote in message
news:c7sr80$29c$01$1@news.t-online.com
>> Or you could simply set up your own certificate authority under
>> Windows Server 2000 or 2003. The only convenience of using a
>> commercial one such as Verisign or Thawte is that their CA
>> certificates are already installed in the Trusted Root Certification
>> Authority list in Internet Explorer.
>
> I don't no much about that. Is ther any good documentation about
> this? Maybe at MSDN, but i can't find the right topic.

Keywords to look for are Authenticode and 'code signing". See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/security/authcode/authenticode_node_entry.asp

-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong." H.L. Mencken


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