On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:39 AM, t.petch <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "SM" <[email protected]> > To: "t.petch" <[email protected]> > Cc: "IETF Discussion" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: https > > >> Hi Tom, >> At 00:18 26-08-2011, t.petch wrote: >> >Besides all the usual hassle of TLS, today the certificate is >> >reported by IE as >> >expired, which sort of sums it up. >> >> Already reported to ietf-action@. >> >> Regards, >> -sm >> >> P.S. My experience of ietf-action@ is that they are responsive and do >> fix problems that are reported. > > Yup, but why are we using https at all? Who decided, and please would they > undecide? Unexpired certificates can be circumvented, but all too often, the > https parts of the web site just do not work and, more importantly, I think it > wrong to use industrial grade security where none is called for.
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