[Replicant] [PATCH] about: Add FAQ entry about the CAcert certificate

Wolfgang Wiedmeyer wolfgit at wiedmeyer.de
Sat Mar 11 00:09:18 UTC 2017


Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wiedmeyer <wolfgit at wiedmeyer.de>
---
 about.php | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/about.php b/about.php
index 0cebc13..94d0f86 100644
--- a/about.php
+++ b/about.php
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@
 				<div class="panel-heading"><h3 class="panel-title">Why doesn't Replicant guide users through installing complementary proprietary components?</h3></div>
 				<div class="panel-body"><p>Replicant is a free software project and thus does not encourage nor enforce the use of proprietary software. Providing instructions to install such components is a way of encouraging the use of proprietary software, which is not an ethical thing to do.</p></div>
 			</div>
+			<div class="panel panel-default" id="cacert-certificate-error">
+				<div class="panel-heading"><h3 class="panel-title">Why do I get a warning message when connecting to the Replicant website with https?</h3></div>
+				<div class="panel-body"><p>Replicant's website uses a certificate issued by the community-driven certificate authority <a href="//www.cacert.org/">CAcert</a>. You get the warning because CAcert's root certificate is not trusted by your browser. It should however be possible to add the CAcert root certificate to the certificates your browser or your operating system trusts. Replicant will use certificates issued by <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Let's Encrypt</a> as soon as possible which will solve this issue. Replicant's website is currently hosted by <a href="https://osuosl.org/">OSU Open Source Lab</a> and their infrastructure does not yet support Let's Encrypt.</p></div>
+			</div>
 		</div>
 		<div class="col-md-3">
 			<div class="list-group">
@@ -65,6 +69,7 @@
 				<a href="#replicant-based-omnirom" class="list-group-item">Why is Replicant based on CyanogenMod instead of OmniROM?</a>
 				<a href="#shipping-proprietary-components" class="list-group-item">Why doesn't Replicant ship with proprietary components when free replacements are missing?</a>
 				<a href="#installing-proprietary-components" class="list-group-item">Why doesn't Replicant guide users through installing complementary proprietary components?</a>
+				<a href="#cacert-certificate-error" class="list-group-item">Why do I get a warning message when connecting to the Replicant website with https?</a>
 			</div>
 		</div>
 	</div>
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2.11.0



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