North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OT: is it possible for an individual (not a business) to get avalid SSL certificate
<PRE><!-- for those mail clients that will try to read this as html> <HTML> <BODY> <H1><font face="Arial,Helvitica" color="blue"><i>Microsoft</i></font> <font face="Arial,Helvitica" color="black" >1 Microsoft Way <BR> Redmond, WA</font> </BODY> </HTML> </PRE> Like Magic, there's the Microsoft Logo (roughly). Just make one up. Curtis On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jim Mercer wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:13:38AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote: > > >as such, i can likely get an SSL certificate with just my passport, drivers > > >license (as a secondary piece of documentation) and a letter deeming me as > > >responsible for the domainname (as my name does not actually exist as the > > >registrant, but i am the admin contact). > > > > a letter from whom to whom? a company that places faith in a letter > > they ask you to write yourself is just poor in my eyes. > > > > me: i need to do so-and-so. > > them: and how do we know you're qualified to do that? > > me: i have a letter that i wrote to myself that says i am. > > them: oh, very well. > > > > sounds...flimsy. > > yes/no. > > this is standard practice for the domain registrars, and other elements of > business. > > i'm often required to send a letter on "letterhead". > > i don't have letterhead, let alone an identifying logo for any of my companies. > > so, i just put the company name in big letters at the top of the letter, > date it, sign it. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Curtis Maurand System Administrator lamere.net Powered by Prexar http://www.lamere.net mailto:[email protected] Linux, OS/2, Windows (any flavor) http://www.prexar.com Cisco, OpenRoute, Lucent MySQL, SQL Server, PHP, Perl ------------------------------------------------------------
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