Certificate Authorities

To get to this panel, press button Settings in JonDo's main window, then choose the entry Certificate Authorities from the list to the left.

A certificate is a (digital) container for a public encryption key, digitally signed by a certification authority (e.g. the JonDo team), that approves for third parties by the signature that this key belongs to a given person or organisation. If this approval for certificates didn't exist, anyone could pretend to be the JonDo team or a trusted Mix operator, and may operate honypot Mixes, for example, or may engage in the communication between users and really trusted Mixes/operators and read all data. Moreover, the insertion of faked update messages would be easy. (Further infromation concerning certificates...)

• I only want to use servers certified by the following authorities:
  This list contains all certification authorities that you trust.

• Import...
  With this button, you can add certification authorities to the list of trusted authorities. The appropriate certificate should be chosen in the dialog field that appears.

• Remove
  This button removes an entry from the list.

• Disable
  By clicking this button, you can deactivate an entry without removing it from the list.

• Details...
  Click on this button to the the certificate of the selected entry.

Certificate Authority Information