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tor000

Secure connection failed when entering various Google services

Unread post by tor000 » 2018-01-20, 06:34

Hello:
When I trying to enter Youtube, Google Maps, or even login to my Google account, Pale Moon blocks the access with the following message in the attachment.
This began only today, and I've version 27.7.1. With IE11, everything working correctly.
Why this is happening?
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Secure Connection Failed when entering Google services
Secure Connection Failed when entering Google services

tor000

Re: Secure connection failed when entering various Google services

Unread post by tor000 » 2018-01-20, 06:40

Problem solved by unchecking "When an OCSP server connection fails, treat the certificate as invalid", at Tools -> Preference -> Advanced -> Certificates.

New Tobin Paradigm

Re: Secure connection failed when entering various Google services

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2018-01-20, 15:00

Another fake solution. I wish people wouldn't call what is obviously a workaround at best a solution.

What would be a solution is if google actually took security seriously and fixed their stapling.

More and more I am starting to understand why there is no choice in the world anymore. It is because in general people have been dumbed down to the point or simply haven't been properly educated on how to actually make a proper choice so they make poor ones and call it a solution. They can't handle having the power of choice anymore. So why offer them one.

The problem then comes to protect these inferior decision makers from them selves one needs to remove choice and because the world values the lowest common denominator and want some twisted version of equality no one gets any say in anything.

Instead we should be uplifting and teaching and informing people that the choices the make have consequences that the choices they do have however rare these days are all so precious they must take care when making them.

When to turn off stapling or install Moon Tester Tool or set your browser to accept RC4 you are choosing to not be informed.. Indeed you have made a choice of ignorance and selfishness. To not fight against bad secuirty or not contact a developer. Yes, you have chosen the status quo and chosen to be dictated to by others which in the end leaves you with no choice at all. Which was the intent from the start.. To make you give up on making choices because.. WELL you didn't make good ones anyway right?
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JustOff

Re: Secure connection failed when entering various Google services

Unread post by JustOff » 2018-01-20, 17:45

tor000 wrote:Problem solved by unchecking "When an OCSP server connection fails, treat the certificate as invalid", at Tools -> Preference -> Advanced -> Certificates.
This option is disabled by default for a reason.
New Tobin Paradigm wrote:Another fake solution.
Not in this case.
Last edited by JustOff on 2018-01-20, 17:47, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Secure connection failed when entering various Google services

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-01-21, 12:02

Please use default settings. OCSP servers are regularly unreachable -- if you enable this setting then any OCSP server connection failure will prevent you from connecting to websites using certificates that designate that OCSP server as authoritative.
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