Pros and Cons of Creating an Internal Cerificate Authority

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Published on 2010-05-13T02:23:18Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 2:25 UTC
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What are the pros and cons of spinning up an internal certificate authority (primarily Windows 2003 CA)? We have the need to encypt server-server traffic on a project that has 20+ certificates. We could buy certs from Verisign, but I was thinking that an internal CA might be a better long term solution. So I was looking to the community to provide a pros/cons list of what we might gain (or lose) by hosting our own CA? Thanks in advance for the help.

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