On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:45:12 -0500, you wrote:
Well, unless you paid Verisign, or some other certificate authority, a
couple of hundred bucks to sign your certificate, then technically speaking
everything is definitely NOT fine.
In case anyone's interested, Comodo sells $50 root-signed certificates. They'll
even sign a 30 day cert for free just to get you up and running "until the
purchase order clears".
http://www.instantssl.com/
Sorry if that sounds like a commercial, it's just that I finally found someplace
that's cheaper than a couple of hundred bucks.