NetResults and Scorecard: Certificate authority servers, 9/1/97

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

Scorecard and NetResults: Certificate authority servers

Network World, 9/1/97

Scorecard

                        WebCA Sentry  CACertif. e-Cert
                                       Server
Overall                  8.9     8.1     7.8     7.3
Protocol Support(30%)     8       9       8       6
Administrative Tools/
Server Support(30%)       9       6       9       7
Installation/
documentation (20%)      10      10       5       9
Capacity/
Expandibility(10%)        8       9       9       7
Cost(10%)                10       7       8       9

Weight refers to the percentage weight given each criteria in our 1-10 ranking (with 10 being the best).

NetResults

WebCA 1.0.1

Entrust Technologies, Inc
(613) 247-3411
Web site
Pricing: $500 for 500 certificates
Pros: Price; Easy to install;Good administrative interface.
Cons: Limited scalability; Lacks some advanced features.

Sentry CA 1.2 Apache Stronghold Release

Xcert Software Inc.
(604) 640-6210
Web site
Pricing: $1,495 plus $295 for access control list plugin.
Pros: Easy to install;Strong set of features.
Cons: Limited Web server options.

Certificate Server 1.01

Netscape Communications Corp.
(415)937-2555 Web site
Pricing: $995.
Pros: Good administrative tools;Scalable; Includes Informix database.
Cons: Quirky installation process; Spotty documentation.

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