On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 17:13 +0000, Vandaman wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > that's not the issue...the certificate is signed by > > Akamai which is not > > a certificate issuer that is trusted by default. This > > message is what > > you would see from any certificate presented that is not > > signed by a > > trusted issuer (i.e. self-signed certificates). > > > > rather than pose solutions that illustrate how little you > > understand the > > problem, you would do better to understand the problem. > > > > The simple solution is of course the download the > > certificate, examine > > it and decide whether or not you wish to trust the > > certificate. > > > > Are you suggesting that Red Hat is using a self-signed > certificate, this is not some prima donna called Craig > from Azapple (who is full of himself) this is a global > corporation we are talking about. ---- actually, I wasn't suggesting anything. I very clearly stated that the certificate was signed by Akamai ---- > > I have no intention of trusting a self-signed cert from > a big corp. ---- I would have thought that is exactly what you are doing when you accept any certificate signed by Thawte, Verisign or whomever ---- > I would suggest you dismount from your high horse because > the common name on the server doees not match the cert its > also a problem on IIS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813618 ---- I wasn't actually replying to the OP whose question... > Accessing https://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo gives > > Secure Connection Failed > > redhat.com uses an invalid security certificate. > > The certificate is only valid for www.redhat.com. > > (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) was answered by Bjorn, telling him to go to https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo in which case the certificate does have the correct cn and that was simply the OP error. But there is still the issue that I don't show Akamai as a trusted issuer for certificates in Firefox in which case, you still have to deal with it. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
