The Sikh Geek

Since I realised that Windows Mobile 5.0 won’t allow self signed certificates, I’ve been wondering what’s the best way around this. There are a number of online places where you can get a SSL certificate for about $99 which should work fine. However, in order to synchronise my Dell PDA with SBS 2003 I turned off the SSL Encryption as this was just over my local wireless network (which is encrypted anyway). This worked fine and all felt good. Then I thought, well if you can establish a VPN link back to SBS 2003 (which is fairly straightforward with SBS 2003) then you can synchronise that way without a certificate!