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Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Dec 05 13:30:48 2003 
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:14:48 PST, Mark Foster said:

> The CA does not popup a warning. It is the browser or client application 
> that does this.

The three ways to disable the popup:

1) Have the user accept a CA cert for your site. Help Desk Nightmare.
2) Have the user disable the popup. Help Desk Nightmare.
3) Get the top-level-CA cartel to accept your CA cert in the list of ones
bundled into IE.

Yes, it's a cartel, and yes, actions taken by said cartel are at least partially
responsible for the pop-up happening.

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