What is the difference between the QUT certificate authority and an external certificate authority?
As all a certificate authority provides is trust, there are no real technical differences. The level of encryption is the same and the encryption algorthyms are the same. However, web browsers are preconfigured with a set of trusted certificate authorities. The QUT CA is not in that list by default, therefore, when a person surfs to a site with a QUT CA signed certificate, it tells the user that the CA is unknown and askes if the certificate should be trusted. Desktops that use the standard operating environment, SOE, however do have the QUT CA listed as a trusted authority and therefore the user isn’t asked if they want to trust the server.
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