Re: How to tunnel https traffic in VPN based connecton?

[s1nghul <s1nghulx () googlemail com>]

The third-party certificate (or your self signed one) has to be
deployed and registered on your companies workstations. There is no
communication with the root cert. authority during the ssl handshake,
between the workstation and the ssl-activated server. Most of the root
cert. authorities (e.g. Thawte, VeriSign etc.) are already registered
in the trusted certificate cache of your computers, so chances are
good you won't have to do anything after getting your certificate from
one of these authorities.

Regards
s1n

2011/3/3 asad ali <a.alii85 () gmail com>:
> Thank you for your reply. As a follow up question i have this to ask you.
>
> Does third-party SSL certificate works if the site is operating in a
> intranet environment having no access to the internet (WWW).? As i believe
> the browser needs to communicate to the root CA's server in order to process
> and validate users request in case there is no connectivity to the outside
> world all such processing would fail. Right?
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:43 PM, s1nghul <s1nghulx () googlemail com> wrote:
> > If you want to use a self-signed certificate, you can create you own
> > root certificate, sign your self-signed certificate with it and deploy
> > the root cert. on every client via domain policies.
> >
> > Regards
> > s1n
> >
> > 2011/3/1  <a.alii85 () gmail com>:
> > > I have Site(s) Ani....i=1,..10 sites which communicate with site B to
> > > access a website/application. That's simple enough.
> > >
> > > However, the traffic is http well we primarily don't need https on ipsec
> > > tunnel right?. But since attacks related to eavesdropping of traffic come a
> > > real reality once it gets terminated by the ipsec device on both sides.
> > >
> > > I have two options either to purchase a third-party ssl certificate to
> > > encrypt the traffic between two nodes or use a custom made one.
> > >
> > > I don't want to use a custom made one because this make the browser
> > > prompt an ugly untrusted certificate message; its ugly not from security
> > > perspective but for clients inconvenience and assuring users confidence in
> > > our systems is a critical issue for us.
> > >
> > > Based upon above discussion i have the following two queries:-
> > >
> > > a) How its possible to remove ugly un-certifcate message from user
> > > screen? Does the company need to register its certificate to some kind of CA
> > > body? or what ...
> > >
> > > b) Due to some tcp acceleration issues, ssl traffic slows down the
> > > traffic between the nodes so we only require the encryption to stand just
> > > during the initial handshake when the username and password are being
> > > validated ; after that we
> > > want to revert back to http? Could this be achieved? If yes how...?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
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Securing Apache Web Server with thawte Digital Certificate
In this guide we examine the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate.  We look at how SSL works, how 
it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure. You will find out how to test, purchase, 
install and use a thawte Digital Certificate on your Apache web server. Throughout, best practices for set-up are 
highlighted to help you ensure efficient ongoing management of your encryption keys and digital certificates.

http://www.dinclinx.com/Redirect.aspx?36;4175;25;1371;0;5;946;e13b6be442f727d1
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