[Retrieved]Re: Fedora Core 2 on Compaq DL380 - SSL?

[Garrett Goebel]

Jon Moss wrote:
>
> Since this will be the church's web server, and we could
> potentially be accepting donations, tithes or other similar
> financial transactions, I probably need to get an SSL certificate.
>
> Anybody have any recommendations?
>
> Please keep in mind that I'd be paying for it, since the church
> doesn't have an IT budget. (I am the IT budget for the church).

Perl's Business::OnlinePayment would foot the bill:
http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Business-OnlinePayment-2.01/OnlinePayment.pm

Apache w/ mod_perl and openssl with Business::OnlinePayment should get the
job done. I.e. transfer money between accounts at various financial
institutions.

You don't _need_ to get an SSL certificate from a CA like Verisign, etc.
With OpenSSL you can create your own self-signed certificates. Does create a
slight issue when the client's browser pops up the warning messages though.

There was an article recently about an up and coming Certificate Authority
in Australia that was OSS friendly... Anyone recall a url or reference to
it?

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