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SSL Certificates FAQ

SORBS Uses SSL certificates to protect your data and ours. Please read the following very carefully.

In the world of the modern Internet SSL certificates are used to estabilish a connection with a website that is encrypted. The certificate used in the encryption is generated to provide validation that the encryption has not been tampered with between your browser and the encrypted website.

There are many types of certificate that can be used some provide dire warnings in their use some don't, the warnings can depend on your web browser or its configuration. This page will not go into detail as we don't want to confuse you, but does have links with more information relating to the differences. SORBS uses a combination of 'Extended Validation Certificates' and 'Self Signed Certificates', the first 'Extended Validation' which means you can trust the data we are sending you is secure from any prying eyes, and that it actually came from our servers and hasn't been forged.

SORBS also uses a 'Self Signed Certificate Authority' to generate our own 'Self Signed Certificates', we do this to keep costs to you the end user to a minimum.

The page you requested is a page that has been signed by the SORBS Certificate Authority, and as such we have told your browser to display this page as a warning. The link at the bottom of the page will take you to the actual page, and if you continue without installing the SORBS Certificate Authority you will receive a message which is unfriendly and confusing to some saying the site certificate is invalid and the recommended course of action is to close your browser or leave the page. This is expected and quite right in most cases, however this page is to inform you that the warning is wrong for the http://www.sorbs.net/ site, and to verify that it is us, SORBS, and not someone trying to trick you, please look at the top of this page it should have a green bar with 'https://www.secure.sorbs.net/' in it, this indicates it is valid and untampered with. It also indicates that we have gone through the same strict verification process by the company that issues the certificates as any bank would.


So how does this affect you?
So how does this affect you, well you have read the warning and you have four courses of action available to you.
  1. Install the SORBS Certificate Authority from this secure and verified site and be assured that anything you send to us is secure and encrypted as well as knowing with confidence that you are acutally using the SORBS website
  2. Proceed without installing the SORBS Certificate Authority and select "Trust Site Permanently" when you receive the warning from your browser (this will prevent further warnings but to be sure your connection is not hijacked you will need to check the certificate signer finger print each time you access the pages.)
  3. Proceed without doing anything and put up with the error message, which means it is possible for someone to capture or fake data to or from this site to you.
  4. Close your browser and get on with life being unable to use the SORBS website.

The SORBS Self Signed Certificate Authority

The "Root Certificate" for this Certificate Authority may be installed in your browser by clicking on the link below and following the browsers' instructions. This certificate needs to be trusted by your web browser in order that other certificates issued by the SORBS Certificate Authority are accepted without complaint. 

            Signature: 
                C7:7A:8A:85:E6:91:0E:E3:C7:38:89:C1:72:57:F5:F6:
                09:3F:DC:C4:38:42:F4:28:D3:08:A7:EF:5F:51:C3:28:
                65:B2:A1:6D:BD:2A:C1:12:03:96:3E:13:CD:A0:4A:07:
                84:F1:A8:1E:98:57:A1:89:A3:0E:28:FF:A4:37:82:B9:
                EC:6B:5C:35:54:80:2E:35:A8:EA:68:69:D8:38:98:3D:
                0E:2D:B0:EA:23:5D:11:9A:98:C9:F7:6E:5C:1F:F1:03:
                91:14:6B:5A:20:E5:3D:24:49:EA:78:2D:FE:9E:96:DC:
                54:BB:91:C0:9E:EA:17:D3:A4:41:07:C8:66:89:42:EB
To view the full certificate contents please click here.


Instructions for installing the SORBS Certificate Authority

Follows are pages which detail the installation of the SORBS Certificate Authority, some operating systems need Administrator privileges, some do not. If you find yourself prompted for the adminstration password on your computer and do not have administrator rights, please contact your systems administrator and have them read this information page.


Proceding from this page

To proceed from this page you can click one of the following buttons. The one marked "Don't show this again" will set a cookie so that you are not returned to this page unless you clear your cookie list or unless you request it by using the link: https://www.secure.sorbs.net/. The one marked "Proceed (show this again)" will take you to the page you are requesting but will show this page everytime you try to login or register with the SORBS website.