[PLUG] firefox, updates, and SSL certificates

[wes]

Are you importing the hospital's CA into firefox? or just setting an
exception for that host to not require a valid SSL cert?

The latter I know for sure is stored in the personal profile settings, and
so would survive an update to firefox. The former, I am not so sure about.

You can get a free cert at startssl.com.

-wes

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> Does firefox retain added SSL certificates through updates?
>
> A certain very large hospital system, which is not Legacy but
> shall otherwise be nameless :-), apparently does not fritter
> away money on official certificates.  So, to access their record
> systems (via Citrix, probably costing a thousand times as much
> as a cert), one must jump through some minor hoopery to import
> their SSL certificate into firefox, which I am about to do.
>
> The machines I am doing this on have automated update for firefox.
> Will the next firefox update require reimporting the SSL certificate
> again?
>
> Should I be ready to do this task the moment the firefox Update Gods
> next wave their magic wands, or face the bitter disappointment of
> doctor users and the litigious relatives of patients dead because
> of delayed labs results?
>
> Keith
>
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