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What does the Certificate Manager do?

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There are tons of Certificates (some government affiliated). Can I remove these or at least find out their association is? (ie. they are for xxxx website that you visited on xx/xxxx). Is there something that tells me if a certificate is permanent or part of the computer. This is all very scary.

There are tons of Certificates (some government affiliated). Can I remove these or at least find out their association is? (ie. they are for xxxx website that you visited on xx/xxxx). Is there something that tells me if a certificate is permanent or part of the computer. This is all very scary.

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You can only disable built-in root certificates by removing their trust bits (click the Edit button) to make it impossible to use them as root certificate.


You may want to disable SSL3 for now until this vulnerability is addressed if you are concerned. RSA Signature Forgery in NSS:

You can set the security.tls.version.min to 1 on the about:config page to disable SSL3 and only have TLS 1.0 and later enabled. You may need to close and restart Firefox after changing these prefs.

0 means SSL 3.0, 1 means TLS 1.0, 2 means TLS 1.1, 3 means TLS 1.2 etc.

Note that you may have to reset the pref and re-enable SSL3 in case you experience issues with accessing websites via a secure connection.