Re: Private Tunnel/Key With Apache and IE?

Eckard Wille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-ssl.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David T. Ashley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to load Apache and Internet Explorer with keys so that a
> "private tunnel" is created automatically?
> 
> What I'm looking for is an arrangement where only a user who has keys that
> I've given him can use a browser to connect to my server on Port 443.
> 
> (I'm aware of STUNNEL and similar solutions, but I'm looking for a solution
> where only the browser and the server are involved.)

You are looking for client cert authentification, take another look at 
the good docs at

> http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_howto.html#ToC6

Generate your own CA and user certs, import them into IE by using the 
pkcs12 cert format. Google for ssl.ca-0.1 from Yeak Nai Siew, these 
scripts will take you through all neccessary steps. Finally configure 
apache and you're done.

Greets from Germany,
Eckard
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