[time-nuts] Febo.com SSL certificate expired

[Bob Camp]

Hi

It's a crazy world when it comes to self signed certs. 

You have at least 5 OS's you need to consider (MS, Linux/FBSD, OS-X, I-OS, Android). You need to think about both browsers and mail clients. Each of those come from a half dozen sources on each platform. Then you have configuration options on each. That's a lot of combinations. 

Each combo seems to have a different idea of what not to do when they see a self signed cert. If you want to be able to handle all of them, even "real" certs may have issues. There are indeed several common combo's that are a major pain with a self signed cert. 

No, I didn't write any of the code with the problems in it. I also don't want to get into the details of what and where. This really isn't the forum for that sort of thing. I'm not out to bash any particular solution, only to point out that there are indeed issues. 

Bob

On Oct 15, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jason Rabel wrote:

> Why bother buying a cert? Just create a self-signed one (and you can make it for like 10+ years)... It's not like he's selling stuff
> from his website...
> 
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