[HTTPS-Everywhere] what does HTTPS-Everywhere consider a "valid" X.509 certificate? [was: Re: Custom rules]

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On 16/10/2010 08:32, Seth David Schoen wrote:

>> Wait, what? It's late and I've had a lot to drink, so I might be
>> misunderstanding. It sounds like you would allow a patch to bypass CN
>> matching.
> 
> I think you're misunderstanding.  I think the proposal is simply to
> have a way to segregate rules by _whether they trigger a warning_ in
> a vanilla Firefox install.

That is what I was suggesting, yes. I wasn't suggesting HTTPS Everywhere
get involved with anything to do with certificate verification in Firefox.

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