Comment 3 for bug 342834

I can confirm this issue using an old Hardy system, though I'm not entirely sure where the problem lies or whether the breakage is intentional (ie, the SSL library is now enforcing some policy).

Using firefox-3.0 and firefox-3.1 on jaunty, I get "security library: improperly formatted DER-encoded message" with *no* option to add an exception or connect to the site at all. On the hardy machine, the error is "ssl_error_bad_cert_domain" stating that the domain on the certificate and the domain being used do not match. However, closer inspection reveals that, according to the certificate, they *do.* This could mean that the certificate/ca-cert is indeed corrupt.

I also tested the URL with wget. On jaunty: "Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority." On hardy: "Unable to get local issuer certificate." I'll leave this bug open so someone else may look at it, but it almost seems that the newer SSL library is only using a better error-checking mechanism and that certificate really is bad.