Security Certificate Trust Problem

[Tecknomage]

There is a government site I use regularly that gives me a "Security Alert"
dialog EVERY TIME.

Partial text: "The security certificate was issued by a company you have not
chosen to trust."

PROBLEM:

1) I have never chosen not to trust this "company"
2) The site is an IE Trusted site (I added it)
3) I did try installing the certificate as Trusted and the Wizard reported
successful install

I assume that there is an entry in the Untrusted section of Certificate
trusts and installing it in Trusted section does not override the Untrusted
entry.

How do I edit Certificate trusts, especially in this case.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

There is always the possibility that the cert is revoked. It would be easy
to check that by unchecking the checkboxes for cert revocation at:
IE, tools, options, advanced tab.

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[Tecknomage]

After I installed the certificate as Trusted, I looked at it.

The dialog shows "Valid from 7/24/2007 to 7/24/2010"

BUT also says, "Windows does not have enough information to verify this
certificate."

I've already contacted the government site about this and sent screenshots.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I think you're stuck with waiting for news from the site. It really sounds
like the cert is revoked to me.
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[Tecknomage]

Nope, it's NOT revoked. Tried your suggestion.

Also, just in case, we use IE6 on WinXP SP2.

Get exact same problem on our Win2k Server. So that tells me it IS a
certificate problem. But, as usual, the problem government WEB site says it's
a Windows problem (watch the bouncing ball).