spkac certificate requests

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24. March 2012, 12:58:15

yyylv

Posts: 3

spkac certificate requests

Some certificate authorities (such as Comodo, but probably also Startssl) uses SPKAC to generate free email certificates (client certificates).

This works fine in Firefox, but usually fails in Opera. I built a simple CA and traced the problem to Firefox accepting the certificate unconditionally, but Opera requiring CA certificate being present in certificate store. If that CA certificate is added to Opera's certificate store, then it works. If CA certificate is not present in Opera's certificate store, then it does not works and is not showing any errors, just does not work.

Could this be a bug?
Opera should either accept certificates as Firefox, or at least it should show an error message, that it is not going to import that client certificate.

26. March 2012, 10:48:08

yyylv

Posts: 3

Rechecked on other computer (also opera 11.61), and it accepted certificate even without CA certificate being available in cert store.

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