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IE Failing on certificate


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Guest Mke HammerFish

I work for a large company that has their own internal network, and Web Site.

For a year now I have hit their site and IE errors with the standard…

There is a problem with this website's security certificate.

The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority.

Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.

When I ask the explanation is…

Internet Explorer is looking for an external server to validate the certificate, but <our company> certificates are on an internal server.

This sounds a bit bogus to me…

1. What questions should I ask the company find out if this is truly valid explanation?

2. Are there any reasons a company would do this rather than the standard way of getting a certificate.

3. Am I wise to not hit the site whereby transactional information is sent across the wire un-encrypted?

4. Is there a way to verify externally if the site is sending/receiving encrypted information?

Thank you

Richard Loba

 

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