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Safari 2.0 and Thawte Certificates

As part of my steep learning curve about encrypted mail in Apple Mail I came across a howto on the O’Reilly mac devcenter, that explains the proccess for requesting a certificate from Thawte.

It says that you can’t use Safari to get your certificate. Probably you couldn’t when this howto was written in January 2004.

But you can now. I just did. There’s no option to select Safari from the browser options in Thawte’s request process, but selecting “Netspace Communicator or Messenger” works.

Then click on the URL in the email from Thawte announcing that your certificate has been issued. Safari will happily download it and automatically add it to your Keychain.

So spare yourself the hassle of mucking around with another browser.

You might also like to follow the guide recommended by Andreas Amann in the comments: http://www.joar.com/certificates/.

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7 Responses to “Safari 2.0 and Thawte Certificates”

  1. MILE says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 12:28 pm

    You keep repeating the same typo throughout the article…they are actually called “Thawte” — as in http://www.thawte.com/

    Thought you might want to correct that…!? :-)

  2. Tim says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 12:32 pm

    Thanks. You’re right, I do want to correct that! ;-)

  3. Andreas Amann says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 5:10 pm

    The best step-by-step instructions I found for setting up Mail certificates are here:
    http://www.joar.com/certificates/

  4. Nicholas Shanks says:
    February 15th, 2006 at 6:19 am

    I have posted a similar set of instructions on my site too. I originally followed joar’s but his are now out of date as the Thawte website as changed.

    Mine can be found at http://web.nickshanks.com/blog/?p=42

  5. Tim says:
    February 15th, 2006 at 9:18 am

    Thanks for posting the link to your walk-through. When the excitement dies down, I’ll put it up as a proper post, if that’s OK.

  6. Nicholas Shanks says:
    February 16th, 2006 at 3:19 am

    You’re more than welcome to do so. I also reported a bug (4445963) asking for S/MIME support in rule filtering (e.g. reject any email reputedly from my bank which does not come signed with a specific cert from my keychain).

    Hopefully such support would encourage greater use of them.

  7. Nicholas Shanks says:
    February 16th, 2006 at 3:21 am

    And you should fix WordPress so it doesn’t convert rdar: URLs into http: ones :-)

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