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[PwrLeveld]

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.

[Herodes]

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.

[xf2_org]

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.

[PwrLeveld]

Oh, ok that makes sense.

[TehZomB]

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.

[PwrLeveld]

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.

[Herodes]

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.

[PwrLeveld]

Yes it is possible, however wevery time I completly wipe all the temp files it seems to revert back.

[wumpus]

Agreed, this should be fixed. See also my HTTPS thread here in Meta.