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INFO: Updating NS 2.02 certificate authorities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Thu Dec 17 03:09:46 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 15 Dec 1998 20:16:00 -0400
From: mick.brown.mc.75@aya.yale.edu (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: mick.brown.mc.75@aya.yale.edu
Reply-to: mick.brown.mc.75@aya.yale.edu
Submitted by: mick.brown.mc.75@aya.yale.edu (Mick Brown)
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I was getting errors in SSL (https:) pages which use the Thawte.com server
authority. The IBM supplied certificates for Thawte expired on Jul 27 1998.
This is also the case for the June 98 NS/2 update.
After several visits to www.thawte.com I found
http://www.thawte.com/certs/server/rollover/contents.html which describes the
problem with expired certifying authorities (in this case Thawte) and
http://www.thawte.com/ucgi/browsercheck.exe will check your browser and
provide links to instructions and pages to fix it for the Thawte authority.
Something like 20% of sites are using the Thawte Certificate authority... so
this is important to those still using NS/2 2.02 or 3.x NS versions for other
OSes.
-- Mick Brown
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