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Tuesday, January 06 2009 @ 04:20 AM EST
The Enfusion Group CA Certificate

Various Enfusion Group services use and require SSL to provide a secure level of communication.

A server which uses SSL must provide a certificate to anyone connecting. This certificate helps to prove that the server is who it claims to be, and is used to encrypt all further communications so that bystanders cannot see or decode them.

A set of commercial enterprises are entrusted with the priviledge of warranting that certain certificates are valid and accurate. You pay them a yearly fee, and they "sign" your certificate to show that your certificate is valid, and belongs to you.

These commercial enterprises are known as the "Root Certification Authorities", and web browsers are pre-configured to know who they are, and trust any certificates "signed" by them.

Since money doesn't grow on trees, we don't have a certificate officially signed by a Root Certification Authority, but that doesn't mean we can't provide secure services.

When a certificate can't be validated because it isn't signed by a recognized Root Certification Authority, a web browser will display a message and ask you if you want continue. This happens everytime you initiate a new conversation with the server that owns the certificate.

To get around this problem, you need to configure your browser to recognize and accept the new certificate.

Enfusion Group certificates are all signed by the "Enfusion Group Certification Authority", and configuring your browser to trust certificates signed by it is as easy as clicking here, opening the certificate, and installing it:

IE Save As Dialog

Click 'Open'.

Then 'Install Certificate', to launch the Certificate Import Wizard. When the wizard launches, just click 'Next' a couple of times, then 'Finish'.