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Message-ID: <4489954E.4080800@csuohio.edu>
Date: Fri Jun 9 16:35:56 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: SSL VPNs and security
> SSL certificates are free. You just have to have enough knowledge to
> distribute your own CA certificate. For a VPN appliance, this should
> not be a problem at all, since only your trusted users should be
> accessing it. Even if you aren't competent enough to figure out how to
> distribute your own CA certificate, I believe there are such things as
> wildcard certificates.
Great .. setup a SSL vpn, then tell your users it's okay to click "yes"
on the "untrusted certificate" popup.
Sure, it's trivial to create self-signed certs (or run a CA), but
distributing your cert (or the CA cert) to all but a handful of clients
is a logistical nightmare.
If you're going to be installing stuff, might as well make that a
IKE/IPSEC client and do it the right way to begin with.
/mike.
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