Self-signed Certificates and Firefox 3 – a Possible Solution

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 12, 2008

[ Thanks to steve
hill
for this link. ]

“Mozilla’s change of policy revolves around this
notification. Whereas it used to say “we’re not sure
about this but you can accept if you want” — and most
users blindly accepted it anyway, it now says “We can’t
guarantee this and that might be because the server is doing
something nasty, please jump through this hoop to proceed
anyway” at which most users will be justifiably concerned and
not proceed. I’ve paraphrased there but the essence is
correct.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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