Bug 1764770 Comment 77 Edit History

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(In reply to gene smith from comment #76)
> Is what you are doing considered "self signed"?

No.

> Mine works with or without my personal CA under "Authorities", i.e., I only get error 805a3ff2 which triggers the override dialog when I override temporary or delete under "Servers". 
> I think I used dovecot's mkcert scripts to create my CA and self-signed certs but don't remember the details. (My dovecot is just for imap testing.)

A self-signed cert doesn't use (or require) a CA.
(In reply to gene smith from comment #76)
> Is what you are doing considered "self signed"?

No.

> Mine works with or without my personal CA under "Authorities", i.e., I only get error 805a3ff2 which triggers the override dialog when I override temporary or delete under "Servers". 
> I think I used dovecot's mkcert scripts to create my CA and self-signed certs but don't remember the details. (My dovecot is just for imap testing.)

A self-signed cert doesn't use (or require) a CA. Interestingly, though, all CA certs are themselves self-signed -- in effect the CA signs its own cert.
(In reply to gene smith from comment #76)
> Is what you are doing considered "self signed"?

No.

> Mine works with or without my personal CA under "Authorities", i.e., I only get error 805a3ff2 which triggers the override dialog when I override temporary or delete under "Servers". 
> I think I used dovecot's mkcert scripts to create my CA and self-signed certs but don't remember the details. (My dovecot is just for imap testing.)

A self-signed cert doesn't use (or require) a CA. Interestingly, though, all top-level CA certs are themselves self-signed -- in effect the CA signs its own cert.

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