8.6.5   Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

This article demonstrates how to quickly set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) in a Windows 2000 Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 development lab environment. Microsoft Certificate Server 2.0 can create many different certificates; this article only covers creation of a standard Web certificate.

This article is divided into four sections:

·         Installing the certificate and setting up an SSL Web site

·         Installing a Client Certificate (into Internet Explorer Web Browser)