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Re: Certificates on the Ubuntu web sites

Subject: Re: Certificates on the Ubuntu web sites
From: Christian Bjälevik
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:57:11 +0200
tor 2005-06-30 klockan 20:05 -0400 skrev Brian Puccio:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:54 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > I find it rather strange that the certificates in use on the Ubuntu web
> > pages aren't signed by a CA that's trusted by my firefox running on
> > Hoary Ubuntu (installed from the standard Hoary package).
> > 
> > It's also interesting that launchpad.ubuntu.com uses the same
> > certificate as bugzilla.ubuntu.com, which means firefox complains about
> > a mismatch between the site's URL and the CN of the certificate.
> > 
> > What was it Thawte did to make money now again ;-)
> 
> There's always CACert:
> 
> http://blog.cacert.org/2005/04/4.html
> 
> I thought I saw a wiki page about the status of CACert inclusion and
> Ubuntu, but I can't find it now.

http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/CACertInclusion

Seems like this spec is in need of more work though.


Sincererly,
/Christian


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