[AktiviX-discuss] Why is the security certificate bad?

[Ian Gregory]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:56:27AM +0000, andy baxter wrote:
> Ian Gregory wrote:
> >
> > The server certificate is not required to create an encrypted
> > connection - only to make sure that the connection is to server
> > that you expect.
> >
> > Ian
> >   
> That's how I thought it was. You can log in to a machine over ssh (is 
> this the same as ssl?) without it having a certificate.

ssh and ssl are not the same but there are plenty of similarities.
You can use something like a certificate with ssh - I think it is
referred to as a "host key".

Ian

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