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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 104 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: the untrustworthiness selfsigned certificates comments Discuss  
SSL pages with self-signed certificates are less trustworthy. But does Mozilla's Firefox go overboard with this issue? Making the Web safe by default, Web browsers are suspicious of SSL Web sites (those that use an https:// prefix) that use certificates not signed by a trusted certificate authority, such as VeriSign, GlobalSign, GoDaddy or Thawte. Firefox 3 in particular makes you jump through hoops in order to view such a page. This has caused some in the Web security community to question the importance of the SSL authentication. - User interface changes in some newer browsers have gotten some in the
security community riled up. The issue is self-signed certificates. Some folks
don't like users being told that their roll-your-own certificates aren't as good
as the non-free ones. But the fact is that they aren't as good, esp...
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