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Lutz Suhrbier, 07/19/2009 07:24 PM
The "Invalid Security Certificate Problem"¶
When accessing for the first time Community Single Sign-On (CSSO) enabled web sites like
your web browser will certainly announce a severe security problem to you. Depending on your web browser, you will encounter one of the following dialogs:
- Firefox 3.5
[!wikiFirefoxInvalidSecurityCertificateFirefox35-ConnectionUntrustedpng|align=center!]
- Firefox 3.0
[!wikiFirefoxInvalidSecurityCertificateFirefox30-SecurityConnectionFailedpng|align=center!]
- Internet Explorer 6
[!wikiIEInvalidSecurityCertificateIE6-SecurityAlert-Yespng|align=center!]
- Internet Explorer 7-8
[!wikiIEInvalidSecurityCertificateIE7-CertificateError-Continuepng|align=center!]
- Safari
TBD
Don't be afraid, this is the usual behaviour !
The reason for these security advices is that EDIT is operating its own Certification Authority":http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/WP57CertificationAuthority. While this Certification Authority issues the certificates for all CSSO enabled web server, it is an EDIT internal solution. Therefore, common web browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari can not verify the trustworthiness of certificates issued by our "EDIT WP 5.7 Certification Authority
In order to securely access any CSSO enabled EDIT web site, you have the following options to upgrade your web browser with the missing certificates:
Add the missing certificates of the EDIT WP 5.7 Certification Authority to your web browser
Add a security exception to your web browser whenever you visit a CSSO enabled EDIT web site for the first time
Initially, the first option is a little bit more time-consuming. But, once the browser is equipped with the certificates of the EDIT WP 5.7 Certification Authority you will not be bothered by these security problems anymore.
The second option needs less time in executing the necessary steps, but you will have to repeat these steps once whenever you visit a CSSO enabled EDIT web site for the first time
In order to make you the necessary steps as easy as possible, we provide you with installation guides for both options and for the most common web browsers respectively as follows.
Option 1: Import the certificates of the EDIT WP 5.7 Certification Authority¶
Option 2: Add security exceptions to your web browser¶
Please contact the editsupport@bgbm.org EDIT Support Team for any problems.
Updated by Lutz Suhrbier about 15 years ago · 8 revisions