Re: Commitfest website certificate

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Commitfest website certificate
Date: 2012-04-18 17:52:27
Message-ID: 20120418175227.GC6450@momjian.us
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:49:08PM +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 04/18/2012 07:39 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:34:49PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 19:30, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >>> I am seeing an error connecting to:
> >>>
> >>> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/
> >>>
> >>> Firefox is saying:
> >>>
> >>> This Connection is Untrusted
> >>>
> >>> You have asked Firefox to connect securely to commitfest.postgresql.org,
> >>> but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
> >>> _
> >>> It started happening when I removed my Firefox preferences directory.
> >>> Is this normal? Does this site need an exception?
> >>
> >> It should not. Maybe someone is hacking your connection ;)
> >>
> >> It should be running with the same certificate as e.g.
> >> www.postgresql.org, which is a wildcard cert for *.postgresql.org
> >> valid until 2016. sha-256 fingerprint is:
> >> 5D 19 8E 15 76 4F F4 0E 3E B0 0E B0 F4 2D 12 1B 93 CB 28 32 4D 39 5E
> >> 8B DB 47 3D 2A 1B E9 54 35
> >
> > Well, though I am not home, I have seen this failure from two different
> > wireless networks. Here are the technical details:
> >
> > Technical Details
> > commitfest.postgresql.org uses an invalid security certificate.
> >
> > The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.
> >
> > (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
> >
> > This is with Firefox 11 on Ubuntu. Does this help?
>
> Just to test a theory - do you get the same error if you connect to
> https://meldrar.postgresql.org?

Yes. Technical details are the same too:

Technical Details
meldrar.postgresql.org uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.

(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)

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