[ILUG] Re: summary ? - SSL certs on clusters

[Colin Whittaker]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:49:33PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Colm Buckley wrote:
> 
> > Not quite; you only buy one cert, as with (1), but you buy
> > additional "server licenses" for that certificate.  These are
> > usually cheaper than full certificates.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > No, you buy a cert for www.mydomain.com, and copy it to all N servers.
> 
> just curious, but is SSL not hierarchical? Ie you can buy some kind 
> of cert, signed by $CA and then create your own certs, signing them 
> with your $CA signed cert?

costs lots though, according to some CAs i have spoken to, 500K+

Colin

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