Discussions have already been covered as to why self-signed certs are a pox, so perhaps a better question is, why would you use a self-signed cert, when there are CAs that are already trusted by Mozilla that offer certs for free?
I know StartCom ( http://cert.startcom.org ) offers certs for free, and there may be others, GoDaddy offers certs cheap, so why go thru the never ending hassle of a self-signed cert? Gervase Markham wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We want to the browser to treat any cert signed by us as trusted by >> putting our self-signed cert into the trusted CA list in mozilla. >> > > How did you try and do this? > > >> However, we still get the error "Could not verify this certificate >> because the >> issuer is unknown". What else is needed to force the browser to take >> our >> cert as a trusted CA cert? >> > > Is the end entity cert directly signed by your root, or are there > intermediate certs in the chain? > > Gerv > _______________________________________________ > dev-security mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security > -- *Pengdows, Inc.* Everyone deserves privacy. Pengdows, Inc. <http://www.pengdows.com> Alaric Dailey - President * StartCom 'Web of Trust' Member <http://www.startssl.org> * Thawte 'Web of Trust' Notary <http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot/index.html> * Notary Public and NNA member <http://www.nationalnotary.org/> * CAcert 'Web of Trust' Assurer <http://www.cacert.org/wot.php?id=3> National Notary Association Member ATTENTION USERS OF MICROSOFT OUTLOOK AND MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS: Some versions of these products have trouble replying to digitally signed emails, like this one. For more information on this error, and how to fix it please visit Mark Nobles website here <http://www.marknoble.com/tutorial/smime/smime.aspx>. Having trouble validating the digital signature? Install the Certification Authority <http://cert.startcom.org/?app=109> _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
