[AG-TECH] Certificates

[Ivan R. Judson]

We have anticipated this and are working on the mechanism by which you can
specify your cert req service instead of ours. We believe this will be
important moving ahead as well.

--Ivan

PS -- web proxy? How'd you identify that as the problem? I didn't know that
part! :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:49 AM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Certificates
> 
> 
> I put in a bug report on this - there is a problem for people 
> like myself 
> who are behind a web proxy.  The certificate request process 
> makes the 
> assumption that there is a clear shot to the web server.
> 
> Obviously, you folks aren't going to be in the request 
> business in the long 
> term, so the whole certificate request mechanism needs to be 
> tweaked.  And 
> in my case (and I haven't started looking at the code yet), I 
> would want to 
> hook this into our established request process.  It would be 
> nice if there 
> were hooks for that.
> 
> -randy
> 
> At 11:03 AM 8/28/2003 -0500, Thomas D. Uram wrote:
> >Hi George:
> >
> >I know I signed one of your requests over the past couple 
> days.  If you
> >start the CertificateRequestTool again, it should show you 
> the status of 
> >your certificate requests, and allow you to import the resulting 
> >certificate(s).  If you have any problems with this process, 
> please do let 
> >us know.
> >
> >As for verisign:  The transitional venue server is not supporting
> >certificates issued by verisign at this time, so that is not 
> recommended.
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >Glover George wrote:
> >>
> >>Am I doing something wrong?  I have sent two requests for 
> certificates
> >>and still havent heard a thing back on either one over the 
> past couple 
> >>weeks.  I just used the Request Certificate item in the 
> AGTk.  Should I 
> >>just get my own through verisign?
> 
> 
>