Unable to obtain identification status for this site

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lister171254
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Unable to obtain identification status for this site

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I'm running Thunderbird V 52.8(64-bit) on the latest version of Ubuntu.
I'm trying to add an exception for a CA Cert generated certificate. I'm getting the error

Unable to obtain identification status for this site

Firefox has no issues with this certificate and the following coomand also seems to work

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openssl s_client -connect mysite.com:60200 -showcerts < /dev/null
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=1 O = Root CA, OU = http://www.cacert.org, CN = CA Cert Signing Authority, emailAddress = support@cacert.org
verify return:1
depth=0 CN = www.mysite.com
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/CN=www.mysite.com
   i:/O=Root CA/OU=http://www.cacert.org/CN=CA Cert Signing Authority/emailAddress=support@cacert.org
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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efdZU4q+T/6JLq/X0u+zmBQg62VG9WlHrrc/wg+9D5+S0FMoouM0QC+WI8W5Yr1l
iW4qURFSxEVUZkc/9JUs9Tqht56Y5dBrim0vYlbjq8B5SKuSsBvYH94UA3DI2FNj
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OqXkaGTSbq3vHCvl7sVnVg7s0/ES6nr39N/nmsUJ7NwlalBtC30YJv/TNylQO3BY
Ik4rpLJVq+hHW8CiiYo+a6wFc1qtKNU/truJnxcS2A6OmDgCDhdQHqXR7DyKMKUS
66EE7kfAvBvWhNm2kW9nJkthJbi1wFNTQpa7VgaUbxX4ww7lETKG290SxcaMGQTp
MvpRWP+XDp8PPAjVPJsRfxM8QjZfOpl5FIYCy5+Sl+kYO4Ohd9E+Fo6KRdbZe+0n
RGmM5epYXlO/CvXkiIlP86w7QgPXFAs4obqJm9S5ylIFgnOYjPNlhnH/C6d+V94G
icocm+TCx5Y3dwazSKK2jLT9a3g7SkFlxZMfweo5ql+eZzUCUFhO8cH+VwXlOyma
D9WxZIXFeSAbXK4P
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
 1 s:/O=Root CA/OU=http://www.cacert.org/CN=CA Cert Signing Authority/emailAddress=support@cacert.org
   i:/O=Root CA/OU=http://www.cacert.org/CN=CA Cert Signing Authority/emailAddress=support@cacert.org
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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MBwGA1UECxMVaHR0cDovL3d3dy5jYWNlcnQub3JnMSIwIAYDVQQDExlDQSBDZXJ0
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SCX8Ev2fQtzzxD72V7DX3WnRBnc0CkvSyqD/HMaMyRa+xMwyN2hzXwj7UfdJUzYF
CpUCTPJ5GhD22Dp1nPMd8aINcGeGG7MW9S/lpOt5hvk9C8JzC6WZrG/8Z7jlLwum
GCSNe9FINSkYQKyTYOGWhlC0elnYjyELn8+CkcY7v2vcB5G5l1YjqrZslMZIBjzk
zk6q5PYvCdxTby78dOs6Y5nCpqyJvKeyRKANihDjbPIky/qbn3BHLt4Ui9SyIAmW
omTxJBzcoTWcFbLUvFUufQb1nA5V9FrWk9p2rSVzTMVD
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
---
Server certificate
subject=/CN=www.mysite.com
issuer=/O=Root CA/OU=http://www.cacert.org/CN=CA Cert Signing Authority/emailAddress=support@cacert.org
---
No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA512
Server Temp Key: ECDH, P-256, 256 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 3859 bytes and written 431 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
    Session-ID: 21B739DDABDFE46751A2AF7513AC18E85F450EBED6B32722C142493A5AD4601F
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: BB5D516724043D227287D72F81E1C9738C5FA20774A20A457A068711932E43AECCFC45AD87E88B6E290087DAC31EF2C4
    Key-Arg   : None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    SRP username: None
    TLS session ticket lifetime hint: 300 (seconds)
    TLS session ticket:
    0000 - 55 ef b6 26 5c 33 48 e7-21 3e 6d d4 f6 5b 1a b2   U..&\3H.!>m..[..
    0010 - 84 0d 3c eb 98 1b 22 e3-f4 72 53 11 10 98 cb c7   ..<..."..rS.....
    0020 - 59 55 58 15 8f cb ee d9-32 ad 74 9c f5 78 9d d8   YUX.....2.t..x..
    0030 - b8 0b 5d 7c 76 0f e7 18-13 c7 ad 7e c0 79 c1 df   ..]|v......~.y..
    0040 - cc 0c 24 a9 42 50 f7 b0-c4 c0 89 a6 fd aa 88 88   ..$.BP..........
    0050 - 4c 42 e6 34 b1 be 04 41-02 8d a9 e1 68 60 de f5   LB.4...A....h`..
    0060 - 86 05 31 2c ad 54 11 46-65 8a ff 6b a8 5a 1d 6b   ..1,.T.Fe..k.Z.k
    0070 - f9 c6 79 72 38 80 63 34-c5 14 e4 27 e2 ca c3 89   ..yr8.c4...'....
    0080 - ce ad c9 77 97 1b 57 9f-24 a1 44 4b d5 34 9e 89   ...w..W.$.DK.4..
    0090 - 1d 14 dd d2 c4 1f 9f 64-af c9 0b a1 0a de 4e 29   .......d......N)
    00a0 - f2 91 b8 dc 69 ae 0d 69-d6 c6 fc bb ee 55 0c 45   ....i..i.....U.E
    00b0 - be 8f 73 e3 8e 9c c2 91-11 5c ec f6 18 89 a9 a0   ..s......\......

    Start Time: 1530349065
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
DONE
Appreciate any hints on how to resolve this
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tanstaafl
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Re: Unable to obtain identification status for this site

Post by tanstaafl »

I'm not used to using openSSL so I have problems parsing that output. http://kb.mozillazine.org/SSL_Security_Error lists the known errors, the one you ran into is not one of them.

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central ... single#184 lists that error text for addExceptionNoCertLong2 . It appears to only be used in https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central ... nDialog.js . It looks like it occurs while checking for the availability of the certificate.

I thought cacert was not a supported CA anymore. Did you import its certificate and then try to use a email account that required cacert? Some background would help.

See http://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/BrowserClients
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