Checking trusted authorities on my browser?

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Checking trusted authorities on my browser? laredotornado 03-21-2005
Posted by on March 21, 2005, 6:43 pm
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Hello, I am using IE 6 on Windows 2000. I was wondering if there was a
way to check which companies I "trust", with regards to accepting SSL
certificates issued by those companies. If I create a self-signed
certificate, and visit my site, I'll get a message like:

"The security certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen
to trust ..."

In the list, I'd expect to find Verisign and Thawte. I never get the
above warning when I visit sites with certs issued by those companies.

Thanks for your time, - Dave



Posted by Edward A. Feustel on March 22, 2005, 7:44 am
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> Hello, I am using IE 6 on Windows 2000. I was wondering if there was a
> way to check which companies I "trust", with regards to accepting SSL
> certificates issued by those companies. If I create a self-signed
> certificate, and visit my site, I'll get a message like:
>
> "The security certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen
> to trust ..."
>
> In the list, I'd expect to find Verisign and Thawte. I never get the
> above warning when I visit sites with certs issued by those companies.
>
> Thanks for your time, - Dave
>
>
Have you downloaded the "root certificate" imported it, and edited its
trust parameters? You can choose to trust such a certificate in the same way
you trust Thawte or Verisign certificates.

I believe that you can "turn off" your trust of those certificates as well.

Ed




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