Hi Alan, I’m not sure what’s happened in your situation. You might have tried to access a secure (SSL) site that Keychain does not have a certificate for.
When Safari goes on a secure web site, the web site gives a certificate to be signed, and Safari has to sign that certificate using one from the keychain. Perhaps there is a confusion in the keychain between the correct certificate and a incorrect certificate, and then Safari tries to sign using the incorrect certificate? The web site certificate can be displayed by clicking on the lock on the left of the URL field on the top of the Safari window. If you can find the secure website that you tried to access post back with the details of the certificate or send the URL address so I can check it. Also, what is the full correct message that you received: “com.apple.WebKit.Networking.xpc wants to sign using key “Apple ID Authentication 2013-05-20 23:16:58 GMT-04:00” in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item? Or does it have a different Date & Time? Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > On 3 Dec 2014, at 10:31 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Got a pop-up in Safari “com.apple.WebKit.Networking.xpc wants to sign in > using key Apple ID Authentication etc …. “ with options to always allow, > deny, or allow. > > Never seen a such a message before. What is it all about? ** Rephrase > this: not all, just a precis! An internet search talked about rendering > machines, which I thought might be associated with house building . . . > > I had done a duckduckgo search for “propogate kangaroo paw seeds” and top hit > was site "anbg dot gov au” which looked reasonably safe to read. Got the > WebKit message, but Safari gave a message “can’t open page … because can’t > establish a secure connection” when I denied access to WebKit. > > Cheers > Alan > > Alan Smith > Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5 Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 > Mavericks > Late 2009 iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks > iPhone5; iPad2; ATV2
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