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This site does look suspicious. When you go to the orders page FireFox says: Secure Connection Failed www.cpushare.com uses an invalid security certificate.

• halo 18y ago
  In FireFox 3 it makes you jump through hoops to allow you access a site which has self-signed certificates or has one with an unknown issuer such as CAcert. The FF3 developers regard this as a feature as it may help prevent potential man-in-the-middle attacks or people making false assumptions about sites based on a padlock by making you add exceptions in every case. I personally regard this functionality as an extremely irritating flaw in FF3 that it goes out of its way to annoy, provides an utterly inadequate explanation for the end user and gets in the way of lots of legitimate use cases (think passwords on non-critical sites that would otherwise be sent in plaintext using http where /any/ security even without trust is actually an improvement). What's even more annoying is that I've yet to find a good way of getting around this broken functionality.
• tdavis 18y ago
  It's a free cert from cacert.org hence it's not trusted... The "About" page claims it's a research project which is precisely what it looks like to me. What's suspicious about that?
  • bprater 18y ago
    From the webpage: "Feel free to join CPUShare to immediately start earning your first CPUCoins and to potentially earn real money by selling your CPU resources." Anytime real money is involved or potentially involved, folks should be using the defacto certification companies that browser all agree on.
    • rory096 18y ago
      CACert isn't really unrecognized, it's just that they haven't worked out a deal with Firefox. There's a 5 year old bug about this, and they're just waiting for the company to do something before they add them.