Re: Low Grade Certs?

[Doug Hardman <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have had one client request a "high security" cert, for reasons that made
sense. The majority of the certs I've seen have been 32bit. Once we got that
request, I started searching and found that very few people use the higher
grade encryptions.

I asked a bunch of friends in the industry that same question on another
list. Here are some of the responses...

If you are using AFP or anything else to connect to the server, HFS is the
only way to go. Apple also recommends HFS now that the "real" os-x is
available. I'd also go out on a limb and say that most software is written
with the expectation of being on HFS volumes. We had problems with
CommuniGate upgrade because we were trying to put it on a UFS volume. It
wasn't anything that anyone could put their finger on, it just never really
worked that well. We re-formatted the drive as HFS and have yet to have a
problem with it.

-Doug

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Douglas Hardman
doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Silver Creek, Ltd.

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> From: Bob Minor <developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: itools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:38:01 -0600
> To: <itools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Low Grade Certs?
> 
> I have a site and one of the users complained about the cert being low grade
> encryption. He was using netscape 6.2, I have verified that it is occuring.
> What is the reason and what can I do about it? I don't remember being asked
> for a 40bit or 128bit encryption level. Or are they trying to upsell to
> Verisign's "SuperCerts".
> 
> This is on a itools 5.x install on OSX server 1.2. I will be moving the site
> to a new OSX/Itools 6.5 server today.
> 
> BTW what are the +/- of using a mac extended or UFS volume?
>