Re: Ssl certificate error
Stefan Caunter <[email protected]>
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there is a force ssl yes setting in options but likely updating the system cert bundle will solve the error —stef > On Sep 12, 2021, at 13:37, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/09/2021 18:02, dan d. wrote: >> SSL error:certificate has expired-Continue? (n) > > I would take that at face value, and assume that it is the site's certificate that has expired. In that case, the secure solution is not to access that site until the site has updated its certificate. > > Certificates expire because cryptographic advances can compromise them and because, the longer a single private key is used, the more opportunity there is for someone to crack it. > > If I'm right about it being a problem for the site, rather than for Lynx, you need to make a judgement as to how concerned you would be if someone had access to the contents of your session with the site, and whether you are making critical decisions based on the site providing the correct data. If these cause significant concern, you should not override the warning. If you don't care, you can safely override, but I don't think there is a way of registering a permanent override. > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev