On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk>wrote:
2) Issuing client certs isn't that difficult.� with windows vista/7, installing a cert is a simple double-click operation, so if they have a usb flash, you can use linux to zip a copy of their private key and a .doc with instructions (including screenies!) on configuring their OS in a matter of seconds, all they have to do is stop by IT to request a key once, and it's good for as long as you honour it.
if dealing with client keys - most of the times its just PEAP with user/pass and its the CA thats an issue. even then there are ways of doing this quite easily... eg https://su1x.sf.net
I also quite like using the root certificates tool which happily imports certificates into the root certificate store in windows. Go to here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931125 Download the "rootsupd.exe<http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/rootsupd.exe>" from there and expand it with winzip or winrar. Then convert your DER file into a P7B using OpenSSL: openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile internalca1.der -certfile internalca2.der -out internalca.p7b Then use "updroots.exe" included in the exe to import the certificate into your local certificate chain: updroots -l internalca.p7b And you're done You can even use "iexpress" if you're running windows XP to re-package everything back into a self extracting exe.