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I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask

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From	Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de>
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Subject	I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask
Date	Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:36:53 +0000 (UTC)
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I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask 
me to accept a certificate from my bank.

http://i.imgur.com/1mizR6B.jpg

How do I make this decision?

Just now, I logged into my Bofa account from my home using 
the same browser and computer and IP address that I normally 
use.

Bofa allowed me to log in, but, when I hit one of the billpay
options, it asked me to download that SSL certificate because 
the previous certificate expired a few days ago.

You'd think that a big bank would fix this in 3 days.
Also, I'm using my normal browser & IP address.
And, the domain appears to be a valid domain.

How do I decide if I should accept this certificate?

PS: I obfuscated the URL just in case it was specific to my
BofA account. Did I need to do that or does the URL not matter?

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I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-12 23:36 +0000
  Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2015-06-12 23:51 +0000
    Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-13 05:21 +0000
  Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-06-13 02:41 +0000
    Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-13 05:42 +0000
      Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-13 23:24 +0000
  Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-13 05:13 +0000
    Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-06-13 10:01 +0100
    Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2015-06-13 13:21 +0200
      Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-13 23:21 +0000
    Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> - 2015-06-13 10:46 -0700
    Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-13 23:18 +0000
      Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-06-13 20:30 -0400
        Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-14 02:12 +0000
          Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-06-13 22:43 -0400
      Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-06-14 00:40 +0000
        Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-14 02:12 +0000
          Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-06-13 22:39 -0400
            Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-06-14 02:49 +0000
      Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-14 20:05 +0000
        Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-14 22:49 +0000
          Re: I wish I understood SSL Certificates better when they ask Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-06-15 00:31 +0100

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