Install a web certificate on an Android device
- by martani_net
To gain access to WIFI at university I have to login with my user/pass credentials.
The certificate of their website (the local home page that asks for the credentials) is not recognized as a trusted certificate, so we install it separately on our computers.
The problem is that I don't take my laptop with me often to university, so I usually want to connect using my HTC Magic, but I have no clue on how to install the certificate separately on Android, it is always rejected.
[Edit2] : this is what is stated in their website
Need for installation of official certificates CyberTrust validated by the CRU (http://www.cru.fr/wiki/scs/)
The certificates contain information
certified to generate encryption keys
for data exchange, called "sensitive"
as the password of a user.
By connecting to CanalIP-UPMC, for
example, the user must validate the
identity of the server accepting the
certificate appears on the screen in a
"popup window". In reality, the user
is unable to validate a certificate
knowing, because a simple visual check
of the license is impossible.
Therefore, the certificates of the
certification authority
(CRU-Cybertrust Educationnal-ca.ca Cybertrust and-global-root-ca.ca)
must be installed prior to the browser
for the validity of the certificate
server can be controlled
automatically.
Before you connect to the network-UPMC
CanalIP you must register in your
browser through the certification
authority
Cybertrust-Educationnal-ca.ca Download the
Cybertrust-Educationnal-ca.ca,
depending on your browser and select
the link below :
With Internet Explorer, click on the link following.
With Firefox, click on the link following.
With Safari, click the link following.
If this procedure
is not respected, a real risk is
incurred by the user: that of being
robbed password LDAP directory UPMC. A
malicious server may in fact try very
easily attack type "man-in-the-middle"
by posing as the legitimate server at
UPMC.
The theft of a password allows the
attacker to steal an identity for
transactions over the Internet can
engage the responsibility of the user
trapped ...
This is their website : http://www.canalip.upmc.fr/doc/Default.htm (in French, Google-translate it :))
Anyone knows how to install a web certificate on Android?
