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#1 2010-03-21 22:32:45

DSpider
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Mirror list certificate warning on both Opera and Firefox.

I'm talking about: https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus

Why does it say untrusted certificate ? Says something along the lines of "this site's identity can't be verified". And it's not a recent problem either... Instead of blindly accepting the certificate I would love to know why it sets off red flags (if I'm not asking too much). Thank you.


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#2 2010-03-21 22:35:37

Pierre
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Re: Mirror list certificate warning on both Opera and Firefox.

Works fine in Firefox on Arch. If you are using Windows, Mac, Ubuntu and such you have to install the Cacert root cert manually.

I was never able to install another cert in Opera; they probably blacklisted it.

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#3 2010-03-21 22:57:33

DSpider
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Re: Mirror list certificate warning on both Opera and Firefox.

It works fine (for you at least) probably because you added an exception to it. Opera provides more information, especially on the "Security" tab.

Should I be worried ? I kinda doubt it uses "https". Says the certificate expires in 2011 but if it's not valid... I think it's pretty important not to set off red flags, don't you agree ?


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#4 2010-03-21 23:08:50

Pierre
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Re: Mirror list certificate warning on both Opera and Firefox.

No, it works fine because the cacert rot certificate is inckuded in Arch. The certificate is valid; opera simply does not know about it (you have to pay a lot of money to get it included). So install the root cert from http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3 (class 1 & 3)

Or simply use any other browser included in the Arch repos.

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