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FIREFOX OS X FOREFOX CERT STORE HOW TO
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Depending on the version of Thunderbird.

Click on 'Root Certificate (PEM Format)' with the RIGHT mouse-button, then save it to a convenient location.

FIREFOX OS X FOREFOX CERT STORE HOW TO

The following procedure tells you how to import the CAcert Root Certificate into your Thunderbird mail client.

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So even if your Windows (and other Microsoft) applications already use a root certificate Thunderbird still might not. Thunderbird uses its own Certificate Manager. The CAcert certificate is called Root CA (Scroll down to 'R'!) Open Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced or Open Tools -> Options -> Advanced If you want to check, modify, or delete the CAcert Root Certificate you can access it at any time via: Note: it may take a few moments to import the CRL after you click "OK".

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Click "OK", and set the automatic update preferences accordingly.

Once there, click the "Import" button, then enter the URL. See also the Certificate Chain Construction.Ĭlick the 'Revocation Lists' button in Preferences->Advanced->Encryption to open the Manage CRL window. If you give the explicite trust to the Class 3 root, then you make impossible to correctly create the certificate chain (from the Class 1 root, through the Class 3 intermediate root, to your client/server certificate. It is OK for the root Class 1 certificate, however this intermediate Class 3 certificate inherits its trustfulness from the root Class 1 certificate (which have signed the Class 3 intermediate root). SHA256 fingerprint: F687 3D70 D675 96C2 ACBA 3440 1E69 738B 5270 1DD6 AB06 B497 49BC 5515 0936 D544ĭon't give the explicite trust to the Class 3 certificate ! The reason is, that the trust (for every of the 3 purposes) explicitly concerns this particular certificate.

Repeat above steps for CAcert's Class3 cert (class3_x14E228.crt or class3_r).

Press OK and that's all for the root_X0F.crt or root_X0F.der.

Close the Certificate Viewer and tick at least the first box ('Trust this CA to identify web sites.').

Most important is that you check the fingerprints of the certificate x2). You should click on VIEW to check the certificate root_X0F.crt or root_X0F.der.

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Trust this CA to identify software developers.īefore trusting this CA for any purpose, you should examine its certificateĪnd its policy and procedures (if available). You have been asked to trust a new Certificate Authority (CA).ĭo you want to trust "CA Cert Signing Authority" for the following purposes? Go to the CAcert Root Certificate website: Ĭlick on 'Root Certificate (PEM Format)' x1) You can find that setting on the page about:config as security.enterprise_roots.enabled and set it to true. However, you can set Firefox to read CA's root certificates from Windows system certificate repository in Firefox's new versions (since about 2017). So even if your Windows (and other Microsoft) applications already use a root certificate Firefox still might not.įirefox can read root certificates from Windows system repositoryįirefox uses its own certificate repository. (all having their own certificate repositories) signed using the SHA256 algorithm.įirefox uses its own Certificate Manager. Keychain Access won't let you do that, but I believe you can use the builtin certtool to manually edit the keychain located at /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain to achieve that.You are advised to import the NEW CAcert roots (root_X0F.crt, class3_x14E228.crt, root_X0F.der, class3_r) into Firefox, Thunderbird, Palemoon, Seamonkey.

Maybe in OS X Mountain Lion user-added root certificates somehow have a lower status than official ones distributed by Apple? If you find that the above steps don't work, you could try adding your certificate to the official root keychain. I note that your screenshot says "This certificate is marked as trusted for this account", which is curious because I'd expect that to be acceptable. You can easily export one using this guide from Oracle. If you generated your certificate directly in a Java keystore then you might not have a standalone certificate file.

It will say "Do you want your computer to trust certificates sign by from now on?".

Find your certificate file and click Open.

Change the Destination Keychain to System.

Open Keychain Access (located in /Applications/Utilities).

I don't have access to OS X Mountain Lion yet so I don't know if it will work in Mountain Lion, but it seems worth a try.

OS X Lion you can manually add the certificate as a trusted root certificate using the built-in Keychain Access tool.