Make Hong Kong Post as a Trusted CA in Firefox 3.0.4

Every time when I login the Renewal of Libarary Materials of Hong Kong Public Libraries and the eTax of Inland Revenue Department of Hong Kong to perform any taxation related activities, Firefox 3.0.4 will pop up to ask me to add the site as exception. So far I was asked 3 times because in each time I was re-directed to a different server , namely etax11, etax21 and etax22. This is quite troublesome.

So, the best way is to add the Hong Kong Post as a trusted CA in Firfox.

To do so, the first step is to get the certificate of Hong Kong Post.

Go to this URL Recognition of Certification Authorities and Certificates > Disclosure Records of Recognized Certification Authorities Download the certificate Hongkong Post Root CA 1.cer.

Then, follows these steps

Go to Firefox 3.0.4 In the main menu, click Tools Click Options Click Advanced Click Encryption tab Click View Certificates button Click Authorities tab Click Import... button In the pop up window, locate the file Hongkong Post Root CA 1.cer Click Open button In the Downloading Certificate window, click View button to examine the certificate Make sure the Issued by is Hongkong Post Root CA 1 Make sure the SHA1 Fingerprint is D6:DA:A8:20:8D:09:D2:15:4D:24:B5:2F:CB:34:6E:B2:58:B2:8A:58 Click Close button to close the view Tick the check box Trust this CA to identify web sites Click OK button When back to the Authorities tab, the Hongkong Post entry should be appear in the Certificate Name column. Click many OK buttons to end and save the setting

Now the Hongkong Post is one of the trusted CA in your Firefox. When going to the sites having certificates issued by Hongkong Post, it will be trust and will not prompt for add exception in Firefox.

For example, when you go to Hong Kong Public Libraries for books renewal, the site will be trusted. At the bottom right corner of the status bar, there is a site name libcat.hkpl.gov.hk with a lock button. Double-click the lock button and then the View Certificate button will see the certificate.

BTW, as at 2008-11-28, the eTax of Inland Revenue Departement of Hong Kong still cannot support the browser Firefox 3. However, as at 2009-02-05, Firefox 3 can be used to login the eTax.

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