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Le 2010-11-09 06:45, David Nelson a écrit :
Hi Guy, :-)

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 18:13, Guy Voets<nimantuis@gmail.com>  wrote:
You have asked SeaMonkey to connect securely to bugs.freedesktop.org,
but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted
identification to prove that you are going to the right place.
However, this site's identity can't be verified.

What Should I Do?
If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could
mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't
continue.

It's happening because the project is using a free certificate
provider (http://cacert.org). Cacert is not configured in most
browsers as one of the "trusted providers". However, technically,
their certificates do their job just fine. It's a "political" thing.
Certificates are sold by corporations such as Verisign for quite a lot
of money, and the big boys don't like a free provider like Cacert
spoiling their otherwise-captive market. Don't worry, you can accept
the certificate and add it to your browser's list of trusted
providers. Neither Cacert nor the bug tracker site is trying to scam
you.

I've seen this question posted before a few times, so I'll post this
answer in a dedicated thread. HTH.

David Nelson


Hi David

Thanks for answering this so well. I was wondering if Guy had gone to our site to see if this was in a FAQ? Maybe you should consider adding it to the FAQ. I think most people would go to the FAQ first to see if there were reasons for concerns.

Cheers

Marc


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