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May 11, 2011, 11:48:34 PM
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Why does ie tell me bitcoins.org has an invalid srcurity certificate whenever I use a secure(https://)/ encrypted connection? Is this truly a bad certificate or an ie glitch.
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May 11, 2011, 11:51:18 PM
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Probably because owner of site will not shell out a large amount of money to have that message go away. As I understand it, any site can use https, but only those who pay some substantional amount become "officially recognized" by browsers because their certificate will be issued by a "trusted entity" whereas the certificate at bitcoin.org is selfmade. Somebody please correct me if this should not be correct.
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May 11, 2011, 11:51:24 PM
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Quote from: PwrLeveld on May 11, 2011, 11:48:34 PM
Why does ie tell me bitcoins.org has an invalid srcurity certificate whenever I use a secure(https://)/ encrypted connection? Is this truly a bad certificate or an ie glitch.

Neither.  It is a self-signed certificate.

These are perfectly valid, but simply do not establish a chain of trust from one of the CA's listed in your browser.
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May 12, 2011, 12:07:07 AM
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Oh, ok that makes sense.
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May 12, 2011, 12:11:22 AM
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Perhaps the owner could get a free one from StartSSL? It works in most modern browsers in my experience, and is included in the Windows root since Vista iirc.
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May 12, 2011, 12:13:50 AM
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Ya, I saw something about that once. I think it should be changed because it is anoying everytime I hit a link it comes up.
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May 12, 2011, 12:48:01 AM
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Quote from: PwrLeveld on May 12, 2011, 12:13:50 AM
Ya, I saw something about that once. I think it should be changed because it is anoying everytime I hit a link it comes up.

Would there be possible to make an exception for it? Firefox can do this, you do it once for every site in question.
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May 12, 2011, 12:53:50 AM
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Yes it is possible, however wevery time I completly wipe all the temp files it seems to revert back.
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May 12, 2011, 05:48:24 AM
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Agreed, this should be fixed. See also my HTTPS thread here in Meta.
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