Connection is untrusted puzzle

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Sun Jan 6 18:30:06 UTC 2013


On 01/06/2013 11:27 AM, JD wrote:
>
> On 01/06/2013 09:31 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> I just tried to access a financial site on 12.04 using Firefox 17.0.1
>> - Canonical - 1.0 and was told the connection was untrusted because:
>>
>> not-its-real-name.com uses an invalid security certificate.
>>
>> The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.
>>
>> (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
>>
>>
>> On the same desktop machine running 10.04 using Firefox 17.0.1 -
>> manually installed I get no warning and can connect as usual.
>>
>> On my laptop running 12.04 - Firefox 17.0.1 - Canonical - 1.0 I get no
>> warning and can connect as usual.
>>
>> I have compared the Security and Encryption settings between the 3
>> machines and see no differences.  The certificate is from GeoTrust if
>> that makes a difference.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas where to look to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>>
>>
> Do you have a certificate monitoring add-on or plugin?
> Check your browser's add-on's, Plugins and Extensions.
>

No I don't.

Regards,  Jim





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