***BOGO*** Re: Accessing Secnews

[Irwin Greenwald <oiwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/1/2008 4:04 PM, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> Jay Garcia wrote:
>> Ok, seems like the certificate authority isn't recognized by the old
>> secnews software.
>>
>> Here are the instructions from Venkat (AOL Guru):
>>
>> This is a test posting to netscape.mozilla.thunderbird newsgroup using
>> secnews.netscape.com (SSL port 563). Let us see if this works.
>>
>> The new SSL server cert that has been installed on secnews.netscape.com
>> news server has been issued by "AOL Member CA" and is valid from Jun 29,
>> 2008 to Jun 29, 2010.
>>
>> You might have to install the following 2 certificates in your browser
>> (NNTP client) in order to be able to access secnews.netscape.com on SSL
>> port 563:
>>
>> https://pki-info.aol.com/AOLMSPKI/AOL_Member_CA.der
>> https://pki-info.aol.com/AOL/AmericaOnline1.der
>>
>> Once you click on each one of the .der files above, you will see a
>> "Downloading Certificate" prompt, where you'll have to select/check the
>> option "Trust this CA to identify web sites" and install the certificate.
>>
>> When accessing the newsgroups on secnews.netscape.com, if you get an
>> error as follows:
>>
>> Thunderbird/Seamonkey can't connect securely to secnews.netscape.com
>> because the site uses a security protocol which isn't enabled.
>>
>> Then, solution is to edit the configuration ("about:config" in the
>> location/address bar in Seamonkey or
>> Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config Editor in Thunderbird) and 
>> enable:
>>
>> 1) "security.ssl3.rsa_rc4_40_md5" (change to "True")
>> 2) "security.enable_ssl2" (change to "True")
> 
> I can access and post without the certificates
> 

Same here.

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