Am 14.10.2010 01:58, Mounir IDRASSI schrieb:
>   Hi Stefan,
> 
> The value of the Basic Constraint extension of this website self-signed 
> certificate is "End Entity" and, more importantly, it is set to 
> Critical. So, technically speaking, this certificate can not be a CA and 
> it can't certify itself.
> The Nokia implementation seems to be strict compared with others but it 
> can't be blamed for checking the correctness of a certificate.
> The administrators of this website can solve this issue by creating a 
> new certificate without the Basic Constraint extension. A more clean 
> solution would be to a have the server's certificate issued by a root CA 
> of their own, like in any normal PKI architecture.

Thank you for the informations.

Stefan

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