Slightly OT: Verify certificate?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 6 08:56:08 UTC 2008


On Friday 06 June 2008 00:56:13 Björn Persson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > While reading my mail I have just received a pop-up asking me to verify
> > that the certificate identified as blah blah has the fingerprint
> > more-blahs.  Just how do you do that?
>
> Meet the guy in person, verify his identity and ask him what the correct
> fingerprint is. If you know his voice you can ask him over the phone.
>
> If that's more trouble than it's worth, then the authenticity of the
> message remains uncertian, which most of the time isn't a big problem.
>
Since he lives the other side of the pond, I'm not likely to meet him.  You're 
right that it wasn't a big problem - it's just that I like things to work :-)

Interestingly, the problem has disappeared.  I haven't done anything, so it 
must have been a bug, now fixed.

Anne
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