Hi folks,

I wanted to bring up some changes we are making to how Firefox handles 
SSL with certificates of unknown provenance (self-signed, expired, 
untrusted CA, domain mismatch).  I've documented the details in the wiki 
here:

    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Security:SSLErrorPages

which, in turn, points to bugs 327181 and 387480.  The very short 
version is that the current SSL error dialogs will be replaced with 
error pages that do not offer default-unsafe one-click overrides.  This 
will also involve improving support for adding trust exceptions from the 
certificate manager, since those trust exceptions will be the way around 
the error pages.

If there are gaping holes in the approach here, it would be helpful to 
know that!

Cheers,

Johnathan

PS - Cross posted to dev.sec and d.t.crypto, but please follow up to 
d.a.firefox.

-- 
Johnathan Nightingale
Human Shield
Mozilla Corporation
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