Comments for What are Root Certificates, and why do I need to update them?

Comment from Wout on 2009-10-22

2009-10-22T21:58:18Z

I'm missing the part where your web site receives public + private key from the CA and uses the private key to decrypt the message from the browser?

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Comment from Brett Brown on 2009-09-30

2009-09-30T20:15:13Z

Thank you for the excelent explaination of this process. I'm in net+ training and prepping for the test. Now it all makes sense.

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Comment from Gabe on 2009-09-30

2009-09-30T15:27:43Z

I notice they are not mandatory downloads. Are they ever mandatory and if not, why? This seems as critical an update as any security update.

I've never seen them as mandatory. Microsoft seems to restrict mandatory to only critical security updates - the kind of things that could cause crashes, compromises etc, if not updated. (OK, and WGA updates, and a couple of other things apparently on Microsoft's agenda.) Not taking an optional root certificate update would, at worst, simply throw warnings when you visit a site that required a cert you didn't have. In general it's a fine thing to take them, but not a security issue if you do not.

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Comment from Rosie Perera on 2009-09-24

2009-09-24T22:54:15Z

Thank you for that excellent explanation. I've never understood that stuff. So...you neglected to spell it out explicitly, but it's pretty obvious. In answer to your questioner's question, yes, it sounds like you should download and install them.

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