Closed Bug 194269 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Mozilla gives confusing error messages for ssl certificate problems

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect, P3)

1.0 Branch
x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 99411

People

(Reporter: mozbug1, Assigned: ssaux)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 When a certificate isn't signed by a trusted CA, mozilla gives a big dialog that says: Unable to verify <site> as a trusted site. Possible reasons are: - Untrusted CA - Certificate is incomplete - The site is pretending to be <value of CN on certificate> Furthermore if there is a hostname mismatch it is presented in a seperate dialog. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to https://kuix.de 2. Click past the first dialog to see the second Expected Results: Mozilla should have stated that the problems was an untrusted CA. It should not have said 'here is a list of possible problems'. Netscape 6.2 does say that problem was an untrusted CA. Mozilla should have also combined both problems into one dialog like IE does. I haven't checked what happens when you use a certificate that is expired. There might even be a third dialog.
Priority: -- → P3
Version: unspecified → 2.4
Confirming per discussion in whatever bug it was in whic kaie asked this be filed (usually one would cite the bug you're spinning off of in the opening comment. ;) )
NSS can't distinguish between an untrusted CA and a missing intermediate CA issued by a trusted CA. The remaining issue is bug 99411. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99411 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: PSM → Core
Version: psm2.4 → 1.0 Branch
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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