[Nottingham] Hello

[Richard Ward]

Well I was running windows at the time... I dual boot for games and
such. And I'm aware that its silly to join a LUG while booted into
windows ;)

Though now I'm in Ubuntu it still won't authorise. Shame on Ubuntu.

2009/3/18 Simon Osborne <flibble at gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/18 Chris Booth <Chris.Booth at nottingham.ac.uk>
>>
>> The reason is that the default install of Firefox v3.07 doesn't know
>> that CAcert is a trusted certificate authority.
>
> From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAcert.org
>
> Inclusion status
>
> As of 2005[update], certificates issued by CAcert are not as useful in
> web browsers as certificates issued by commercial CAs such as
> VeriSign, because most installed web browsers do not distribute
> CAcert's root certificate. Thus, for most web users, a certificate
> signed by CAcert behaves like a self-signed certificate. There was
> discussion for inclusion of CAcert's root certificate in Mozilla and
> derivatives (such as Mozilla Firefox) but it was closed without
> including it, at the end of April 2007.[5] This was after an audit was
> suspended in December 2006 because CAcert needed to improve their
> management system. There has been progress toward this and a new
> request for inclusion may be expected in the future.[6] Getting the
> CAcert root cert included into Mozilla is probably CAcert's largest
> challenge right now, but one they are actively engaged in.[7] CAcert
> is engaged to give more transparency in its management system.
>
> The following operating systems or distributions include the CAcert
> root certificate: [7]
>
> Ark Linux
> CentOS[citation needed]
> Debian
> FreeWRT
> Gentoo
> Internet Tablet OS (installed on Nokia Internet Tablets)[citation needed]
> Knoppix
> Mandriva Linux
> MirOS BSD
> OpenBSD
>
> ---
>
> What a mess.
>
> Simon
>
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