Netscape accepts cert from evil empire

2001-02-04 Thread terr
First off - I am new to this and I'm learning. I do not claim to know very much about it and asked the question in openssl-dev because it seemed to me that if the DNS is highjacked that the transaction can be masqueraded. I did a test with Netscape 4.07. This browser is not terribly old. I

Re: Netscape accepts cert from evil empire

2001-02-04 Thread Michael Ströder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created a cert with the host name known as www.evilempire.com and netscape was quite happy to accept it and never reported that the URL I typed in does not match the name carried within the cert. You're wrong. Even those old Netscape Navigator 4.0x certainly asks

Re: Netscape accepts cert from evil empire - found it!!

2001-02-04 Thread terr
Micheal, thankyou. I did find it under "more info". This sure is not obvious mind you... thanx for the clarification. On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:08:20PM +0100, Michael Strder wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created a cert with the host name known as www.evilempire.com and netscape