Ask Slashdot: How do you get non-"Certified" SSL Keys to Work?

Doug asks this interesting question: "I have a web server that allows my users access to their email, and I want to protect it using SSL. I'm using Netscape FastTrack server. It refuses to recognize a generated key unless I have a certificate from The Man (VeriSign, Thawte, whatever) verifying that key. I don't want to pay anybody for a key certificate. Switching to another webserver is not really an option. Does anybody know if FastTrack can be forced to use a non-'certificated' key?" Does anyone know if Apache w/ mod-SSL suffers from this problem as well?