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by rholmes

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Will Microsoft Certificates work without use of Active X? if not, I need to use SSL and certificates without use of active X...any suggestions??

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by lusu

Probably you reffer to IIS and SSL.
If this is the case, SSL protocol is standardized and does not requires any ActiveX client to verify or exchange certificates.
To clarify a little bit, the certificate is a small encrypted file auto-signed with a private key. The client decripts the file (standard algorithms like SHA-1, MD5 etc.) and then uses the corresponding public key to verify the signature. If all is OK, the server is trusted, and the operation continues.
The server can do the same and request a certificate from the client, but this is not generally done, but is required for a highly secured communication (like online banking).

Therefore teh SSL client can be any standard browser, on Windows, Unix or Mac...

Lusu.

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