Thursday, February 23, 2017

Certificate Firefox fault


An internal intranet site with a self generated certificate was displaying correctly using IE but not using Firefox.  Firefox displayed an error with the string.


SEC_ERROR_BAD_SIGNATURE

Both browsers were correctly referencing the private CA to check the certificate.

Regenerating the certificate and avoiding older lower encryption types resolved the problem.




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SHA-1 SEC_ERROR_BAD_SIGNATURE

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