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Re: ICSI Netalyzr launch

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Jun 10 22:53:08 2009

In-Reply-To: <88553257-6137-4EA6-8B52-741EBDA04E83@daork.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:52:13 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Nathan Ward<nanog@daork.net> wrote:
> On 11/06/2009, at 2:16 PM, vern@ee.lbl.gov wrote:
>
>>> didn't want to spring for a cert for that eh? www.startssl.com ... hey
>>> lookie! free certs!
>>
>> ? =A0We bought a cert from Thawte specifically so people wouldn't find t=
hat
>> it's suspect. =A0Does it look funny when your browser presents it to you=
?
>
>
> I had the same problem, I'm not sure Christopher correctly diagnosed it.
>
> It looks like in Safari, when a Java applet asks for unrestricted access =
(as
> opposed to standard) it presents you with the security cert to confirm th=
at
> you really want it. It says "This certificate is valid", as opposed to
> "invalid" or "untrusted" or whatever normally comes up.

<http://img38.imageshack.us/i/picture1apq.png/>

actually:
1) it's firefox
2) the error is from 'java' (looks like the same error as you get nathan)
3) it says: "This applet was signed by the 'International Computer
Science Institute' , but Java canNOT verify the authenticity of the
signature's certificate. Do you trust this certificate?"

So... java fail, my-reading-skills-fail...

-chris

>
> Screenshot of the GUI:
> http://don.braintrust.co.nz/~nward/netalyzr.png


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