Certificates on the Ubuntu web sites

Brian Puccio brian at brianpuccio.net
Thu Jun 30 19:05:09 CDT 2005


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.
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