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10.4: Use the Certificate Authority to create certificates
Authored by: maiklust on Jun 06, '05 04:46:26PM

OS X really made some progress with handling of certificates!

But important to mention is, if you use a self-signed certificate instead one from Thawte (and such), the signed E-Mails (for example) can not be automatically verified by the other party, because it's not signed by a known CA like i.e. Thawte. The receiver sees a warning, that the signature could be malicious.

So you should consider to still use a certificate from a known CA company.



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10.4: Use the Certificate Authority to create certificates
Authored by: Regek on Jul 07, '05 02:56:15AM
As long as the other person already knows and trusts you, just forward a copy of your root certificate and have that person add it to his X509Anchors keychain. That makes it so that all future data signed by one of your certificates or a certificate you signed is trusted by OS X.

Took me ages to figure that one out.

Though yes, it's more complicated than the "it just works" that you get when using a CA already in X509Anchors.

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