Notes about installing SSL the long and hard way

Now GoDaddy offers experts to install your SSL for you and do audits etc. This means things are getting serious on the net and the news on the radio supports that.  But I thought, why is there so much difficulty in installing SSL? Well, it isn’t that difficult but there are a lot of things to know – that is likely what it is all about.

My challenge to myself is that if we generate a CSR on one computer (in this case unix) – how do we get it to a whole different platform (in this case windows IIS)? The process is not hard, it is the research to understand it all. Now I have it here for reference for future endeavours. Continue reading