| | SwapSimple - Help for "Security Certificate Warning" |
 | | A Trusted Root Certificate is a SSL certificate that various well known organizations (such as CACert, Verisign, etc...) can use to sign some other certificate (or any other file, actually) and indicate that the information in that certificate is accurate. |
 | | If the browser knows the about the certificate of the CA, then it can check the signature on our server certificate and, in turn, verify that the web pages you receive are encrypted using our certificate and not someone elses. |
 | | Unfortunately many browsers don't come configured with CACert's root certificate, so they (correctly) issue warnings when visiting a site that uses CACert issued certificates. |
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