CAcert

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Assurer

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I'm CAcert assurer, able to attribute you up to 10 points

  • I've currently 107 points
  • I passed the CATS Challenge with 100% (it requires 80%, I did 84% then 84% then 88% then 100% and got bored ;-) )

Misc infos

  • For server certificates: if using a Class 3 certificate as proposed you'll need the certificate chain file. This is just the Class 3 root certificate and the Class 1 root certificate in PEM format concatenated. Do it yourself or download it from the attachments. Store the certificate chain file in the ssl.crt directory and let's call it CAcert_chain.pem for future reference.
    Now all that remains to be done is to correctly configure Apache's mod_ssl. To use the certificate set the following directives in your SSL-configuration:
SSLCertificateFile <Path to your certificate file>/example_cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile <Path to your key file>/example_key.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile <Path to your chain file>/CAcert_chain.pem

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