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Re: mentors.debian.net SSL certificate under Ubuntu?



Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de> (26/07/2008):
Hi there,

Hi,

What is the recommended and most secure way to have the SSL certificate
installed on Ubuntu Hardy (which I use for Debian packaging)?

I think it's best answered by asking [1], which probably will update
[2] accordingly.

 1. http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/contact
 2. http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/qanda

As a wild guess, you're using a stupid gecko-based browser. If you ever
reach the actual certificate, you should see the issuer is CA Cert, so
you should be able to find a way to install it. Although, one could
think of a webpage where mentors people could GPG-sign the fingerprints
of the certificate, so that you can manually trust it, through the trust
you might have in the GPG web of trust.

Mraw,
KiBi.

Hi everybody, I got a question about a similar issue. I am using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071618 Iceweasel/3.0.1 (Debian-3.0.1-1)

And when I got to a website that is not yet trusted I have to add an exception in a very user unfriendly way that is usability a blocker to go further on the website. I can understand that for non-computer literated this is even more the case.

However, I also use CA Cert as authority, but it's not yet in the official trusted list. But users can't add an authority when they come to a website with a CA Cert signed certificate, they can only add an exception for the current website certificate.

Why is there no option to direct them to the following website so they can add my CA authority to be trusted, or do this automatically?

http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3

Kind regards,

Jelle


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