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gwynevans · 12-10-2007, 07:30 AM

It's just Microsoft erring on the 'paranoid' side when presented with a self-certified certificate!

The problem is that to have a certificate that's 'signed' by one of the "chains of trust" already known to IE costs the site owner non-trivial amounts of money. That's OK if you're making serious money from the web-site, but doesn't fit the requirements of the hobbyist/open-source developer, so if they want to use https (to encrypt the data between their users browsers & their site) they have to use certificates that IE doesn't 'know'. As a result, IE shows the messages you refer to!

Personally, I've told Firefox to accept it permanently & have no concerns about doing so.

12-10-2007, 07:30 AM	#2
gwynevans Wizzard Posts: 1,402 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: iPad 2, iPhone 6s, Kindle Voyage & Kindle PaperWhite	It's just Microsoft erring on the 'paranoid' side when presented with a self-certified certificate! The problem is that to have a certificate that's 'signed' by one of the "chains of trust" already known to IE costs the site owner non-trivial amounts of money. That's OK if you're making serious money from the web-site, but doesn't fit the requirements of the hobbyist/open-source developer, so if they want to use https (to encrypt the data between their users browsers & their site) they have to use certificates that IE doesn't 'know'. As a result, IE shows the messages you refer to! Personally, I've told Firefox to accept it permanently & have no concerns about doing so. Last edited by gwynevans; 12-10-2007 at 07:31 AM. Reason: Use more than 1 sentence in a paragraph! :-)