On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:00 32PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>
>>> From personal experience -- I use https to read news.google.com; Firefox 6
>> on a Mac complains about wildcard certificates. And ietf.org's certificate
>> expired recently; it took a day or so to get a new one installed.
>
>
> This last bit might be relevant to the mailing list.
> - The IETF's cert was for *.ietf.org
> - It took a week, not "a day or so" to get the new one installed
> Steve: I wonder if your browser, after you dismissed the dialog once,
> silently remembered that dismissal for a week, or if it stopped asking you
> after a day.
Neither -- I relied on my mailing list archives for the interval, and
didn't scroll back far enough...
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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