Before downloading the DSSA™ software, the web server software (IIS, Apache, etc) is selected and standard contact and organisation details are entered in a web form. The DSSA™ is then downloaded with a Unique ID [UID] Key that is automatically embedded in the accompanying config.txt file (this can be modified, as required, by an experienced Administrator).
The Project Vesuvius approach was to separate the Certificate Discovery component from the rest of the project and create a customized ‘search engine’ capable of spidering any network and returning any, and all, SSL information in list format. The first version of this was available by Q4, 2002.