> Since 1.4.0 the installer (and its contents) are digitally
> signed by innotek. So all it does is verifying whether the certificate
> is still valid.

Thanks for the response on this. But, just curious, is there a way to
disable this?

Joe

On 8/13/07, Klaus Espenlaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> steve wrote:
> > looks like a certificate revocation list, why vbox is contacting it I
> > have no idea??
>
> Should be pretty obvious. It's not "us" contacting them, it's the MSI
> stuff written by Microsoft which does that when verifying the
> signatures. Since 1.4.0 the installer (and its contents) are digitally
> signed by innotek. So all it does is verifying whether the certificate
> is still valid.
>
> AFAIK the MSI installer we provide doesn't run any innotek-written
> binary code at install time.
>
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whois 64.18.25.38/
> >
> > OrgName:    Baltimore Technologies
> > OrgID:      BALTIM-8
> > Address:    77 A Street
> > City:       Needham
> > StateProv:  MA
> > PostalCode: 02494
> > Country:    US
> >
> > NetRange:   64.18.16.0 - 64.18.31.255
> > CIDR:       64.18.16.0/20
> > NetName:    CYBERTRUSTCIDR
> > NetHandle:  NET-64-18-16-0-1
> > Parent:     NET-64-0-0-0-0
> > NetType:    Direct Allocation
> > NameServer: NS3.US.BETRUSTED.NET
> > NameServer: NS4.US.BETRUSTED.NET
> > Comment:
> > RegDate:    2001-07-11
> > Updated:    2005-10-24
> >
> > RTechHandle: GOM-ARIN
> > RTechName:   Global Operations Manager
> > RTechPhone:  +1-443-367-7000
> > RTechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > RTechHandle: NM47-ARIN
> > RTechName:   Moscone, Nick
> > RTechPhone:  +1-781-455-4300
> > RTechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > RTechHandle: SNE2-ARIN
> > RTechName:   Senior Network Engineer
> > RTechPhone:  +1-443-367-7000
> > RTechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > OrgTechHandle: SNE2-ARIN
> > OrgTechName:   Senior Network Engineer
> > OrgTechPhone:  +1-443-367-7000
> > OrgTechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-08-11 19:10
> > # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
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