Basic Settings
Access Numbers & Connection Configuration
Contact Seanet sales and give them the following information:
Seanet's web-admin will use your information to generate a CSR ( Certificate Server Request ) which will be sent back to you via email. You will then use the CSR to purchase your secure certificate from an authorized vendor. We generally recommend Verisign or Thawte for your certificates, but you may use any recognized vendor. Whoever you choose, expect to pay between $100 and $350 for a certificate good for one year. Please note: CSR specifications cannot be changed once you have purchased your certificate. Seanet is not responsible for incorrect or misconfigured CSRs. Once you have the certificate, send it back to Seanet's web admin and it will be installed on the server. Once the certificate is installed, your secure web space is ready to go.
If you are going to install PGP for secure data transmission, please see the PGP instructions below.
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Contact Seanet sales and order the secure service. Seanet sales will give you a login and password for the Secure Site and Seanet's web admin will contact you when the web space is configured.
If you are going to install PGP for secure data transmission, please see the PGP instructions below.
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Use your favorite FTP program to upload to your secure space. Set the hostname to secure.seanet.com and login with the username and password given to you by Seanet sales.
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Seanet uses PGP encryption for secure data transmission via email from your web site to you. PGP can be obtained in both Commerical and Freeware versions from www.pgp.com . Download the software appropriate to your computer platform and follow the installation instructions. If you installed PGP correctly, you should have generated a "key pair" of a "public" and "private" key. Open the "PGP Keys" application and copy your "public key" into an email and send it to ssladmin@seanet.com. Also specify the email address that you used when you generated your key pair.
Seanet's web admin will install your PGP public key on the Secure Site. With PGP installed you will be able to use CGI scripts to send PGP encrypted emails from the server to the email address you specified when generating the "key pair". These emails can then be decrypted using PGP on your computer. If you installed the commerical version of PGP, the decryption will be virtually seamless. The freeware version will decrypt your email just as well, but requires more steps. Full instructions are included with both versions.
