Installation of certificates

When connecting to any of the FIB Corners, you are connecting to a secure server. This secure server will present you with a emes certificate for seCERT, the UPC certification authority. This certificate is perfectly valid, but Explorer will not validate it, since it doesn't recognise the certification authority. It will notify you of this every time you connect.

If you want to solve the problem definitively, so it never asks again, you will have to install the certification authority by following the steps below: Please note that you will still be able to gain access even if you don't follow these steps -- it's just that it will always warn you that it can't validate the certificate.

1.- Connect to http://escert.upc.es/_pub/certs/escert_raiz.crt the file escert_raiz.crt will be downloaded.

2.- Go "open this file at its current location". Explorer will then detect that we are trying to install a certificate, and will bring up the following screen.

3.- Click on the "Install Certificate" button. This will launch a wizard for installing certificates that will bring up 3 windows. Just leave the default options and keep clicking on "next".

4.- The certificate is now installed. Now you have to add it to the list of trusted certificates, by clicking on OK for the next window.

In Version 4 of Explorer, the first window is the same, but a wizard is not launched. Instead, there is a window for choosing what the certificate will be used for. In this case, it will be used only for authenticating servers.

The last question is the same as in Explorer 5.

1.- Connect to http://escert.upc.es/en/, and a wizard for importing certificates will appear. Just leave the default values and choose "next" on all windows that come up, except for the one that gives the "accept certificate for network sites" option (check this one) and the one that asks for a name (type esCERT).

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