SQUIRREL SIGNING AUTHORITY

The difference between our Squirrel Signing Authority and Verisign or other commercial certificate signing authorities is the source.

We have our own root certificate for Squirrel Signing Authority that you should install in your browser using the instructions on this page.

Once this certificate has been installed it will authenticate all certificates on our servers. If any of the server certificates are invalid or change, the browser will detect it. If the server certificate is compromised, it will not be signed by the installed "Squirrel Signing Authority" certificate anymore, and your browser will detect the problem.

Root Certificates like the Squirrel Signing Authority root certificate are used to verify the certificates for web sites. The private version of the root certificate is used to sign all certificates issued to our secure sites.

The key to encryption is, without that private root certificate, no one can create fake certificates on our site that will be seen as signed by our official root certificate. The public version of this root certificate is the file ca.crt that you download by clicking on the "CLICK FOR CERT" in order to install it in your browser.

This file can only be used for determining if a web site's certificate was signed by our root certificate. It is not possible to use this "public key" to sign a certificate with the purpose of impersonating our servers. The web site's certificates are also used to encrypt any data transferred between you and them, so all of your email is secure.

Netscape 7
To accept our root certificate in Netscape 7, click on this link: http://www.despaminator.com/ca.crt

The box shown below should pop up, fill it out as shown, then select OK

Internet Explorer
To accept our root certificate in Internet Explorer, click on this link: http://www.despaminator.com/ca.crt
 
It will ask you to save the certificate as ca.cer. Note where it is being saved to and hit Save. Next go to Tools - Internet Options, select the Content tab. Under Content, select the Certificates button.

Select Import - when the Certificate Import Wizard comes up, hit next on the first page.

On the next page hit Browse and select the ca.cer file you saved earlier. You will have to change the Files of type: menu selection to X.509 Certificate (*.cer; *.crt).

Select open from the above menu. This will get you back to the Wizard. Hit Next in the Wizard window. In the next box select the bottom choice and hit Browse to produce what is shown below:
Hit Next on this box and Finish at the next one.

Select Yes when this dialog comes up:

Internet Explorer should then tell you that the Import was Successful.

You can scroll down in the open box and see the Certificate like below:

You can now close the open dialogs.

Netscape Communicator 4.5

Accepting the certificate in Netscape Communicator 4.5: http://www.despaminator.com/ca.crt
- Hit next until you reach a box with choices. Select the choices below: