I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ... (Gene Heskett)

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
> Most likely it's just a self-signed SSL certificate. Very common, and
> Firefox stupidly throws a fit over it (which is dumb because it encourages
> sites to just use unencrypted HTTP instead, which is even less secure, yet
> gets through with no warning). Just OK the certificate.

HTTPS with an unknown self-signed cert is barely any more secure than
unencrypted HTTP, since a man-in-the-middle attack could just be
replacing the cert and decrypting all communications.

However, the reason to "throw a fit" is that end-users have been trained
that "HTTPS == secure".  They know that HTTP is not secure, but they
don't know the details of how SSL/TLS work to know that "HTTPS with
unknown cert != secure".
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.