5769-NC1 -- MIDRANGE-L

Anyone know where I can get 5769-NC1?
cjg


Carl J. Galgano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Barbra Schora [mailto:bschora@wenet.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 12:35 PM
To: Carl Galgano
Subject: Prerequisites...
Importance: High


Here's what the book says:

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You do not have a secure connection until you do the following steps:

- Install "both" the TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for AS/400 and
licensed program
5769-NC1 (US & Canada).  We have TCP/IP Utils (obviously) *>> but we do
not have 5769NC1.
Can you take that on as an action item?

- Configure the server for SSL.  Instructions are here.

- Create a key pair for secure network communications.  Instructions are
here.

- Receive a certificate from a certification authority (CA) who is
designated as a trusted root on the server.
Have sent inquiry to Verisign, there are other CAs around, will know
more on that soon.  RSA is also a CA I believe,
I'm not sure where to find info on what CA is best to go with -- Since
Verisign is mentioned throughout the guide, I'm taking that path
initially.

- Verify that you can establish secure sessions.

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It also says that the AS/400 can act as a CA in an Intranet
environment.  So there's the explanation on
"self assigned" certificates.  Internally, okay, externally, not good
enough.  The browser encryption handling plug-ins want a valid
certificate signature in order to successfully handshake a secured
session.

I will try to find out Who the certificate needs to belong to, ICO or
ECS, I'm assuming ICO -- a CA assigns digital certificates as a
guarantee to customers that "the business" has undergone an approval
process and is given a seal of approval in the web world.  Now, it might
be cheaper financially to secure one DC under ECS, however, we need to
find out, and that I will address with Verisign.  We need to find out if
this is a business-to-conusmer issue or a server-to-consumer issue.  It
might be a server-to-consumer...  I would assume that the CA needs to
validate the
server's business, but lets not jump to conclusions.  Will inform.
b.

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Barbra Schora
e-Business Solutions; IBM AS/400
http://www.bulletpress.com/bas.html
Tel: (415) 924-7714, Fax: (419) 781-6445

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