SSL Certificates

An SSL certificate is half of a pair of certificates needed for an encrypted session. Forget About IT® has it's own master certificate, otherwise known as a root certificate. This allows us to issue certificates for all of our clients at no cost.

Without installing the root certificate on your computer or mobile device, you will get a warning that we are not to be trusted. This is because we have yet to persuade Microsoft, Apple et al to release their software with our root certificate pre-installed. Maybe one day :-).

All that is needed to avoid the warnings, is for the root certificate to be installed on any device that needs to access a Forget About IT® server. The root certificate can be found here. Different browsers require different techniques:

Browsers

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to the Root Certificate location: http://www.uk.forgetaboutit.net/certs/
2. Click on fabit-ca-cert.pem
3. You'll get:

   You have been asked to trust a new Certificate Authority (CA).

   Do you want to trust "CA Cert Signing Authority" for the following purposes?

   [ ] Trust this CA to identify web sites.

   [ ] Trust this CA to identify email users.

   [ ] Trust this CA to identify software developers.

   Before trusting this CA for any purpose, you should examine its certificate and its policy and procedures (if available).

4. Tick at least the first box ('Trust this CA to identify web sites.') and click OK

Mobile Devices

Windows Mobile 6

You first need to copy the certificate file to the device using Internet Explorer. Windows Mobile 6 supports DER, CER and PEM formats, but we recommend using CER. Start File Explorer and then simply tap the filename. The device should then say "Certificate successfully imported" or words to that effect.

Windows Mobile 5 & Pocket PC 2003

On Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 the file has to be in DER format. Otherwise, process as above.