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Alpine, SSL and hostname validation

I'm using Alpine mail client. In our company we use one SSL certificate for multiple services on multiple servers so hostname validation doesn't work. I can use /novalidate-cert option but I don't ...
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Firefox says self-signed HTTPS sites error - The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded

Recently Firefox has started telling me that any HTTPS sites which use self-signed certs have Invalid URLs, where as the exact same URLs work fine in Internet Explorer 9. Internet Explorer at least ...
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Can other see the content I post over a secure connection?

I'm gonna ask a question which includes both SSL and VPN. Though, question is same for both. For SSL, i logged into a forum which offers/supports SSL encryption for secure authentication.(like email ...
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Getting a free ssl certificate for a subdomain

I have a sub domain from no-ip .org. I would like to get a free ssl certifcate for my doman. Is this even possible to do for a subdomain and if so what are my options.
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how to install libio-socket-ssl-perl on tiny core Linux?

I found this commands on another pages: apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl tce-load -wi libio-socket-ssl-perl but doesnt work. Any idea to install libio-socket-ssl-perl on tiny core ...
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Which port must I unblock in firewall for FTPS using WinScp to evade Timeout?

I'm suing FTPS in WinScp for sending data to my Synology diskstation. When I'm doing it inside a private network using port 21 for connection everything works fine. But when I'm trying the same thing ...
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How can I create an unencrypted PKCS#12 certificate?

Given a certificate, thing.crt and a key, thing.key, I can create an PKCS#12 certificate with: openssl pkcs12 -export -in thing.crt -inkey thing.key -out thing.p12 Problem is, openssl asks me for a ...
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Firefox doesn't automatically import an application/x-x509-user-cert

Let's say I have an user certificate (PKCS#12) at http://example.com/example.p12 When I point Firefox to that URL, it does nothing. It doesn't install the certificate, it doesn't show a dialog box, ...
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Origin of SSL identification string on certain HTTPS sites

Some SSL protected sites have a fancy identification string in the browser navigation bar. Where does it come from? Is it the "Common Name" field in the CSR? Here's an example:
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WS2003 + IIS = Untrusted Certificate

I have configured a Windows 2003 server to allow SSL access from the Internet, particularly to enable so called Outlook Web Access, that is browse Exchange Server data from the Internet. Following ...
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Can not acces Gmail.com, SSL error

I'm using a wired router connected to a ADSL line to conect my computer to internet, When I try to access gmail.com using Firefox it gives following error, Secure Connection Failed An error occurred ...
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SASL authentication failed on OSX

I'm trying to send some email with mutt from OSX. This used to work in the past, but now it has stopped working: $ echo "file backup" | mutt -s "[BACKUP] file backup" -a ~/file.zip -- name@domain.com ...
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Cisco IPS not supporting TLS

I am trying to communicate with a Cisco IPS 4240 device using SSL while having the FIPS security setting enabled on the client. This is not possible because the device does not support the TLS ...
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How to connect to a NON-HTTP (“custom protocol”) server via HTTPS

I need to install a piece of client software which connects to a custom server (not a http server) on a specific port. But my IT dept are implementing HTTPS and say I must connect via HTTPS. How ...
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Wordpress login dashboard issue [closed]

I have a free blog hosted by Wordpress. When I try to log in to the Dashboard, mostly I get this error: This webpage is not available with Chrome or Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage ...
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Are Google Chrome's suggestions encrypted?

Some of you might have noticed that Google has changed their search to use SSL by default. I noticed that even if you set your search engine on Chrome to unsecured Google, the results are delivered ...
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Chrome is reporting GMail has Invalid Server Certificate, how do I find out who's fiddling with my certs?

Chrome is giving the following warning when ever I try and visit GMail or a bunch of other SSL sites. Invalid Server Certificate You attempted to reach mail.google.com, but the server presented an ...
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Mozilla Sync (wsgi via apache) through SSL causes error 500, no log entries

I have been following (among others) these instructions http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/mozilla-custom-sync-server/ to setup a mozilla sync server. It runs fine when I connect to ...
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Importing a self-signed SSL certificate on MacOS

I generated a self-signed certificate with openssl and added it to my linux server. I then imported the certificate on my mac with Keychain Access into the System keychain using the settings "Always ...
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Cannot connect to website - SSL handshaking fails

So I cannot connect to certain websites. Just a few, most are OK. The one I really care about is paypal.com. I have done the usual things. Let's see: Cleared browsing history Tried different ...
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Redirect IP to url for ISPConfig 3 administration

I am running a debian machine with ISPConfig 3.0.4.3. Yesterday I purchased a RapidSSL wildcard certficate and want to make sure my IPSConfig always loads the admin.mydomain.net url. Even if the user ...
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MITM the Android emulator

I am trying to man-in-the-middle the Android emulator so I can decrypt the SSL-traffic with sslsniff. The problem is that the traffic doesn't seem to get routed through sslsniff, even when I have ...
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Nginx + SSL + Rails + Juggernaut (Node.js) + Engineyard

I have two different applications on the same server. One of them is running on the 80 port (mydomain.com), another on the port 443 (sub.mydomain.com) and has wildcard certificate. The first ...
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Can I force Google Chrome or Google Search to not use HTTPS with google.com? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How force Chrome to use google.com search engine without https Every time I go to www.google.com in Chrome it goes to HTTPS://www.google.com, which happens when signed ...
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Redirect Apache SSL traffic to subdomain with a proper certificate

I currently have a server which has a DynDNS subdomain (let's call it foo.dyn.com). I also have a proper domain with a CNAME pointing to that subdomain (let's call it bar.baz.com). foo.dyn.com has a ...
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SNI on IE7-IE8 - Bulk authorized certs

I am currently working on a project where we use https servers with self-signed certs. Now, I have been able to add the self-signed certs to IE's "Trusted Publishers" ect. but, there still seems a ...
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Comodo-signed SSL 2.0 certificate not working with Internet Explorer

I'm having trouble getting my Comodo signed SSL Certificate to work with Internet Explorer in Apache2. Internet Explorer gives an error that there is a problem with the certificate. I tried all ...
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SVN, SSL certificate negotiation failed. However we don't use SSL certificate on our SVN Server

Can you tell me please, at my workplace we don’t use SSL certificates for SVN, however while running RUby on Rails command that checks SVN ( = Churn) still expects it and gives back the following ...
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Using personal laptop in corporate network getting so many SSL error

How come using personal laptop in the corporate network to access intranet or Outlook get so many SSL error/untrusted certificate? Whereas using company issued laptop never gets error. Is it because ...
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Firefox Sync & SSL (or not?)

I was looking at these 2 tutorials on how to set up a sync service for Firefox: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/setting-up-your-own-mozilla-sync-server/ ...
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Setting up SSL in IIS 7.5 - Not working

I have a development server that I'm trying to enable a self-signed SSL on so that we can test some functionality specific to the SSL before pushing out to our production server (which has a real, ...
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How to block specific HTTPS traffic?

According to HTTPS description: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with SSL/TLS protocol. It provides encrypted communication ...
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Installing a custom Root authority certificate for a Service Application

I have an Windows service application, that executes under a specific user account, that calls a remote web service via HTTPS. The certificate the remote server uses is issued by a Root authority ...
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Do web browsers cache SSL certificates?

Do any web browsers cache SSL server certificates? For example, if I change the SSL certificate on a web server, will all of the web browsers pick up the new certificate when they connect via SSL, or ...
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Decrypting SSL in Wireshark with only private key of certificate signed with a DSA signature

I've generated a self signed certificate with corresponding key that is used to MITM a research object using sslsniff. This works, however, I'd would be fitting to have the traffic decrypted in ...
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SSL Vulnerability on Youtube?

I got the little gold lock before https:// (which was greyed out) on www.youtube.com The site uses SSL, but Google Chrome has detected insecure content on the page. I was logged into YouTube via my ...
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What is the difference between a SSL cert I generate and one I buy?

I have my own server on a dedicated ip. Can I just generate an SSL certificate or do I still need to buy one from a company such as Network Solutions? Whats the major difference between the two?
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Decrypting SSL traffic in Wireshark. Only headers get decrypted

I'm trying to decrypt SSL traffic in Wireshark, and it partially works because I'm able to view the decrypted headers. The problem is that I don't see any of the packet contents, only their headers. ...
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How does Google have a self-signed SSL certificate? [closed]

From my understanding, SSL certificates are licensed by a third-party trusted source, such as VeriSign or Akamai. However, Google apparently seems to somehow have a self-signed certificate: How?
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Certificate disappearing from Trusted Root Certification store

I am using a self-signed certificate for testing SSL locally on my development environment - I insert the certificate into my trusted certification store and everything is fine, but a few hours later ...
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Mutt will not let me save an SSL certificate

I have just set up Mutt to connect to my firm's IMAP and SMTP server. Everything works; but when I launch mutt, I get a warning about the certificate, and am given the option to: (r)eject, accept ...
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decrypt local ssl traffic (MacOS)

I am trying to reverse engineer a protocol which uses HTTPS exclusively. On Windows I was using oSpy to view the plaintext of local SSL packets, but for MacOS I have not been able to find an ...
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Getting an IE error after accepting a site's certificate

There is a partner site, that I connect to through HTTPS and with a custom port. I am using Internet Explorer. When I go to that URL, I get a prompt from Internet Explorer, saying "There is a problem ...
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How to create private security certificates that behave like official ones?

I'm trying to get a valid secured environment for HTTP communication to behave like normal ones. I'm doing this for a restricted group of users. There is a hardware server running a web service ...
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Convergence - If I install it, I can remove the installed CA's in my webbrowser?

After I installed Convergence ( http://convergence.io/ ) Firefox Add-on, I can remove the installed CA's from my webbrowser? Is it true?
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ssh through port 443 alongside webserver

I'm looking to move ssh off port 22, and had tried out sslh; sslh ssl/ssh multiplexer - accepts HTTPS, SSH, OpenVPN, tinc and XMPP connections on the same port. This makes it possible to connect to ...
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Internet Explorer refuses to connect to sites with untrusted SSL certificates

IE has started exhibiting a strange behavior. We have several intranet nodes (routers) that are configured to use HTTPS for access, but which have untrusted / self signed certificates on them. At ...
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How do I know that notary servers are blocked on my firewall?

If I enable Convergence I get these warnings. How can I know that my firewall blocks the communication with the notary servers? How can I test it under Linux? (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) I tried to add ...
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How to find what elements on SSL page are insecure? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to tell which resources are loaded “insecurely” with Chrome using https I"m using a major tax site for this year's taxes, and I am getting the "Some ...
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How does SSL-VPN tunneling and encryption work?

I have a few questions on SSL-VPN (Tunnel, not portal version). Question 1 is probably the one I'd like answered the most, out of my four questions. How exactly does SSL-VPN tunneling work (Feel ...

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