[josm-dev] JOSM wants to add a certificate?

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Maarten Deen wrote:

> I understand all that, but I can still not validate the certificate with 
> that. I am asked to trust certificate xyz, but it is not documented anywhere 
> who generated that certificate and what the key should be.
> The keytool command (when run on Ubuntu) gives an error "Illegal option:
>  -ext".

You don't understand. The private key for that certificate is open 
available to everybody together with josm.

So you cannot trust it at all in any real sense.

On the other hand you need to trust it or you can't use JOSM links from 
HTTPS pages.

Now clear?

Ciao
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