On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:20:01 +0530 "Ramnarayan.K" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > > Am facing some trouble with firefox - on some sites that require > secure connections - like ticket bookings, passport sites etc. > > The problem is when i click on some links > i get this message (below between the ***) [...] The real answer to this is: (a) What kind of transaction are you doing with the site, and (b) How paranoid you are. This is a security feature of Firefox that shows problems with website security certificates. If you are not doing a financial transaction, or dealing with sensitive data, it is probably OK to go ahead and click through to make a security exception in Firefox for the site in question. This will normally need to be done only once per site. The problem with this Firefox feature is that it also catches self-signed certificates, which causes problems for many FOSS-related sites (including http://www.sarai.net). It is also arguable that CA-signed certificates do not really add that much more trust. In this particular case, passport.gov.in, you should probably not make an exception, and instead complain loudly to the site maintainer. It is ridiculous that they cannot be bothered to keep their site certificates up to date. So much for the people who are pushing the much-vaunted National ID card. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
