Re: ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys

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On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 10:07 -0400, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > If you experience such situations, the right approach is to contact the
> > owner of the certificate (or the server), and ask them to get a
> > replacement certificate, or to install a replacement certificate on
> > their SSL/TLS server.
> 
> That’s the right thing to do of course, but leaves the users with an
> unusable system in the mean time.  Could the update description at
> least generally point to how to work around this if the certificate
> owner is not (sufficiently quickly) responsive?     Mirek

Most software has options to override certificate errors.

I don't want to encourage how to do that, and covering all potential
applications would result in a big list.

I'd assume that people who are desparate will find the options on how to
override certificate errors and connect anyway.

Kai


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