Re: Accessing Secnews

["Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T" <pjones1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Irwin Greenwald wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
But you might not be able to post there without the certificates.

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