[Nottingham] Hello

[Chris Booth]

Hi,

Further details/example:


Using Firefox v3.07 and browsing to
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham 

Firfox displays an alert reading:

mailman.lug.org.uk:443 uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is
unknown.

(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)

and a page reading:

Secure Connection Failed      
<snip>
mailman.lug.org.uk uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is
unknown.

(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
<snip>


Viewing the certificate the message displayed is "Could not verify this
certificate for unknown reasons."
The certificate itself:

Issued to: Common Name (CN) mailman.lug.org.uk
Serial Number  44:72

Issued by: Common Name (CN) CAcert Class 3 Root
Organisation (O)  CAcert Inc.
Organisational Unit (OU) http://www.CAcert.org
Validity: Issued on 17/02/2008
          Expires on 16/02/2010
Fingerprints
SHA1 Fingerprint
37:92:FE:A1:7F:A9:F1:77:9A:94:AF:10:59:48:DC:E0:22:46:30:DF
MD5 Fingerprint   6E:80:89:6C:35:21:D6:3A:F7:9E:37:9F:DB:20:E0:E2



The reason is that the default install of Firefox v3.07 doesn't know
that CAcert is a trusted certificate authority.  

You can import the CAcert root certificate from http://www.cacert.org/


Cheers,


Chris Booth  (Hoping to make the social on Thursday)
chris.booth at nottingham.ac.uk
 

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk 
>>> [mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Martin
>>> Sent: 18 March 2009 00:42
>>> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Hello
>>> 
>>> Michael Erskine wrote:
>>> > 2009/3/17 Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>:
>>> >>> BTW, Firefox complained that there was something wrong with the 
>>> >>> security certificate on your site, so I had to do some 
>>> >>> jiggery-pokery
>>> [---]
>>> > lug.org.uk. Perhaps we should raise it with lugmasters.
>>> [---]
>>> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham
>>> 
>>> Mmmm... Just tried a few links including https and no 
>>> complaints on my Firefox v3.0.7
>>> 
>>> Any further details/example so that we can raise/zap a bug?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> --
>>> ----------------
>>> Martin Lomas
>>> martin at ml1.co.uk
>>> ----------------
>>> 
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