/~erlkonig/certs/

My personal certificate is the erlkonig-ca.crtin the listing below.
Activating the link will add it as a certifying authority to your browser,
and thereby automatically gain the use of all of the other derived certs.

Instructions for certificate installation into web and email clients:

• For Web Browsers
  1. While visiting this webpage in the browser of interest
  2. Click to add Alex's erlkonig-ca.crt as a Certificate Authority
  3. The browser should prompt for confirmation; here's what to do in some of the major browsers:
     • Opera 6.02 RPM (6.0 and 6.03 from the non-RPM under RedHat both fail)
       1. click OK
     • Mozilla 1.0, title "Downloading Certificate"
       1. check all the boxes (web sites is required, the others are recommended), then click Next>
       2. click OK
     • Netscape 4.78, title "New Certificate Authority"
       1. read the first two descriptions, clicking Next> after each
       2. check all the boxes (network sites is required, the others are recommended), then click Next>
       3. verify that the "Warn me" checkbox is unchecked, the click Next>
       4. You may name the certificate ("Erlkonig (Alex) CA" for example); enter a name and then click Finish
     • IE 5 and 6, title "File Download" (by far the worst interface to this process)
       1. If IE produces a box saying "Getting File Information" (with a graphic of file transfer animating), hit Cancel and then shift-click again on the link on this page.
       2. Select "Open this file from its current location"
       3. click OK
       4. in the new "Certificate" window, click on Install Certificate
       5. in the new "Certificate Manager Import Wizard" click Next
       6. in the "Select a Certificate Store" dialog, click Next
       7. click Finish
       8. in the "Root Certificate Store" alert, click Yes
       9. in the "The import was successful" dialog, click OK
       10. in the still-present "Certificate" window, click OK
• For Email Clients
  1. In most browsers, you can save the certificate to a file with:
     1. Right click-and-hold on erlkonig-ca.crt and select Save Link As...
     2. Using the resulting dialog box, Select and remember a location to which to save the file, and save it there.
  2. Once saved, here's what to do in some of the various email clients:
     • Thunderbird
       1. In Thunderbird's top menubar, go through: Edit → Preferences, tab Advanced, subtab Certificates, click on View Certificates
       2. In the Certificate Manager window, select the Authorities tab
       3. Under the certificate list, select the button Import
       4. In the filesystem browser dialog, locate the saved certificate from earlier, select it, and open it (either by double-clicking the certificate name, or single-clicking and then clicking a button such as Open )
       5. In the next dialog, configure the certificate trust settings to allow general use by checking all three of the This certificate can identify... lines for web sites, mail users, and software makers.
       Certificate installation should now be complete.

Icon  Name (5)        Bytes (21314) Last Change, CDT  Document Title
   Parent Dir              4096  2010-03-02 08:29
   Obsolete                4096  2009-01-01 01:10
   erlkonig-ca.crl            0  2002-11-17 06:52
   erlkonig-ca.crt         1139  2009-01-01 02:46
   erlkonig-ca.crt+txt     3709  2009-01-01 02:33