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Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning
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Stef Caunter |
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Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:04:40 -0500 |
> You need to install the signing certificate from a trusted source. If
> the college is not providing a trustworthy source for doing this they
> are encouraging bad practice for users of all browsers.
I have been unclear. The security implications of the warning speak for
themselves.
Many good and configurable browsers let you turn off this warning.
I have never seen this before in lynx/ssl and would like to disable it. I
could go back to dev8 which does not do this, but I think that putting this
warning in (which requires keystroke input! grrr...) makes the initial
browser experience (more) unpleasant, especially when combined with
INFO/ALERTSECS:3 defaults in lynx.cfg.
Not having
> used SSL builds of Lynx, I don't know how you install one, but I suspect
> you just copy it to the appropriate directory. For IE you would double
> click a .crt file (again taken from a trustworthy source).
>
This could be an openssl solution which could be maybe be put into lynx-docs
or somewhere helpful.
> This warning indicates that there is a prima facie case that you are not
> talking to the server that you think you are talking to.
>
Okay, but in this and many cases it simply means one is trusting a
non-commercial CA cert sent from a machine down the hall.
Stef
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- Re: lynx-dev dev.10 progress, Thomas Dickey, 2002/11/24
- Re: lynx-dev dev.10 progress, Leonid Pauzner, 2002/11/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.10 progress, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/11/25
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- Re: lynx-dev dev.10 progress, Thomas Dickey, 2002/11/30
Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, David Woolley, 2002/11/19
- Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, Stef Caunter, 2002/11/19
- Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, Clemens Fischer, 2002/11/20
- Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, David Woolley, 2002/11/21
- Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, Clemens Fischer, 2002/11/21
- Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, Stef Caunter, 2002/11/21
- Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, Clemens Fischer, 2002/11/21
Re: lynx-dev Patch for SSL warning, Stef Caunter, 2002/11/21