On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:13:48PM +0100, Jon wrote: > Adding mattl to CC incase he has any ideas.. > > Richard Stallman wrote: > > I think the thing to do would be to convince Mozilla to > >include CAcert root certificate in Firefox. > > > >Someone said that this was already being worked on. > >If additional support from us would help, we would be glad to give it. > >Can you find out who we should talk to? > > > > Much better than trying to convince users to install the > >SSL cert. They only see the message after they have already > >had all the error popups and then not bothered to continue.. > > > >We're going to change the setup of pages so as to inform the user > >just when the issue arises. > > This issue came up again, still I see no one has resolved it.. Is it > any wonder everyone uses Sourceforge? How many months/years until > someone sets up the SSL cert from an athorised root agency will it > be? > > On http://savannah.gnu.org/ click "Login". See attached error. Close > browser and never return to the site. How many visitors does GNU > loose because the HTTPS SSL cert is not authenticated as valid by a > root cert in browsers?
The plan is to add more documentation about including CAcert (which hasn't expired to my knowledge). I haven't gotten around to do that yet, due to other pending issues, but maybe you could contribute it? > So again.. I offer to pay for the valid SSL cert, just tell me who > to forward it on to. Or tell me when you've paid for it and I will > donate the same amount. I'd also like a certificate for my Java applets, and also one for my ms woe .exe installers which (like Firefox' or OpenOffice's) trigger a bad-looking warning under recent versions/SPs of that OS. If you can buy that for each Savannah project that would be great. I have to warn you that the annual fee is subtantially higher though (like 50x). -- Sylvain
