Sunday, September 14, 2008

Virtual Machine - Problem #3 Certificates

The Certificates in Microsoft are a confusing item which requires you to trust one certificate to decide if you can trust another.  A complicated heirarchy which can be difficult to figure out.

There seems to be certificates which expire yet are still valid.

The certificates help the software decide how to make changes to your system for security and access to certain places.

So when your certificates are invalid or corrupted, you are totally out of luck.  there is no one to call to fix it.  I tried for weeks contacting Thawte because they seemed to have a connection to the certificate which was out of whack in my system.  No luck contacting by phone or email.  (A recurring theme.)

BUT WAIT, check out the resumes of the executives at Awareness Technologies, they apparently have some expertise in the area of certificates.  Who better to subvert your computer's security than the people who developed it.  What a strange coincidence, eh?

How do you fix your certificates when they are broken?  I have yet to find a solution.

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