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Wish: Please default-accept CAcert.org SSL Certificates

Bug #130255 reported by lefty.crupps
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
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Bug Description

CAcert.org provides Free SSL certificates. Please have the *buntu web browsers accept them by default. I got this idea from the CentOS page and it seems reasonable and its a great program.

From the www.centos.com main page:
Note: CentOS has included CAcert.org as a Trusted Certificate Authority in both CentOS 3 and CentOS 4. We wish that other FOSS distributions would do the same, so people could easily get and use free SSL Certificates

I agree!

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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lefty.crupps (eljefedelito) wrote : Re: [Bug 130255] Re: Wish: Please default-accept CAcert.ord SSL Certificates

Visit https://www.cacert.org/ and I get an error that the site cannot be
verified for "unknown reasons" (Firefox) and in Konqueror, the "Certificate
Signing Authority is unknown or invalid." So, no, I don't think its been
solved or fixed -- both browsers, and others too, should recognize the site
and accept the CACert SSL certificates.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

we will not include certificates not included by firefox devs.

Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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era (era) wrote :

This causes an SSL warning when you visit the bug tracker at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ -- what would be a reasonable way to avoid that?

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