What do you do if certificate is not trusted?

How do you fix a not trusted certificate?

iPhone 12, iOS 16

Posted on Jul 20, 2023 5:14 AM

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Jul 20, 2023 5:32 AM in response to reneasha225

You first have to examine the certificate and determine WHY it’s not trusted by the browser.


A few possibilities (ranging from benign to malicious);


  • The cert has recently expired
  • You don’t have the complete “chain of trust” on your device
  • The web site URL has changed but the site owner is still attempting to use the old cert
  • A malicious site is attempting to masquerade as a legit site with a non-matching certificate.


What your certificate examination uncovers will determine your course of action.

Jul 20, 2023 12:34 PM in response to reneasha225


There are some ideas on how to address certificate issues

and those vary from self-certifying the certificates; and a

lesson may be found among many pages, including history

from 'Let's Encrypt'. As this is morphing, the trail isn't clear.


(from 2022 example)

A New Life for Certificate Revocation Lists - Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2022/09/07/new-life-for-crls.html


Some pages from there, say from 2021 and about older fixes

might be helpful; a few of those with 'period correct' answers

on how-to handle Specific issues of Expiry, had been posted

here in ASC. While many were redacted or removed by hosts.


Create self-signed certificates in Keychain Access on Mac - Apple Support

"You can create a self-signed certificate using the Certificate Assistant in Keychain Access.

Self-signed certificates don’t provide the guarantees of a certificate signed by a certificate

authority but can be useful if the person signing it is trusted."


Keychain Access User Guide for Mac (Table of Contents) - Apple Support


While I've several bookmarks, at various levels; to sort them

now, without an index or table of contents? is rough going.


A search with duckduckgo of Let's Encrypt should bring up a

dog-pile of bits and pieces; +others who've fought the battle

may cite some Apple tech articles or examples from online.

Often within macOS it can help find & fix newer issues with

these Certificates; or might be a place to start.


.."Let's Encrypt" is a free, automated, and open certificate authority..

brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

[Sorry I'm not significantly self-tutored or fluent in these matters.]


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