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Old 05-10-2010, 21:28   #11
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It's just Microsoft being stupid...

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Originally Posted by Pinhead View Post
Any idea why all the DOD certificates, issued by "US Government," are always flagged as untrusted and have to be approved manually?
DOD is not a trusted Certifying authority, except to the DOD. Microsoft doesn't recognize them. Firefox has the ability to permanently store exceptions, so it'll stop asking you every single time...but IE ha no such capability.

Basically, as many windows machines as the military runs, the VAST majority of windows boxes are in civilian hands...the government networks are completely unused by most civilians, so MS has just never bothered "recognizing," DOD as a trusted CA.

Your only recourse is to mount an aggressive letter-writing campaign to MS, asking them to certify DOD as a trusted CA, and I wouldn't hold your breath on that.
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