Notgiven wrote:

> My host uses apache 1.3 and openssl. I have read an article about
> "assymetric encryption."
Read more than one article.
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>
> This allows you to:
> - encrypt data using the server certificate
> - ONLY the user(s) with private certs generated from that server cert can
> read it

No not really.
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> I would very much appreciate any links, readings, or explanations on a
> step by step how to , on how to implement this - including how to export
> the privtae certs to a browser.
>
The SSL certificates HOWTO might be useful, but you still need to find out
how SSL and certificates work.

C.