Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Certification Error: Navigation Blocked – Windows Internet Explorer

When trying to access any site with https (any secure site) following error occurs in Internet Explorer or any other browser.

There is a problem with this website’s security Certificate. The security certificate presented by this website was not issue by a trusted certificate authority.

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when viewing the details of the certificate, you can see that the Root CA is not trusted by your computer.

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Also there might be some other errors like – you are unable to add a blog entry in Windows Live Writer. When trying to add an entry it gives the following error.

An error occurred while attempting to connect to your blog:
The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.
You must correct this error before proceeding. 

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Solution

Run Windows Update!!!

Or

  1. Find a computer where you don’t get the error. If don’t have another computer than download the Root CAs file here. (this file will not be updated)
  2. If you do have a computer where you don’t get the error then just type mmc in run and press enter
  3. After the MMC opens go to file menu and click on Add/Remove Snap-in…
  4. Click on the Add button, select Certificates and click on Add again.
  5. Select computer account, Next and then Finish
  6. Close the standalone snap-in window and click on ok on Add/Remove Snap-in window.
  7. Now navigate to Trusted Root Certification Authorities > Certificates
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  8. Now click on Action > All Tasks > Export.
  9. Give the file a name and save it, once saved come back to your problematic computer again and follow step 2 to 7.
  10. Right Click on Certificates > All Tasks > Import
  11. Just find the file and click Next and you might have press yes a few hundred times :-|
  12. If you have Windows SDK and .Net framework installed you can use the certmgr.exe with the following command.
certmgr -add -all -c "Savedfile.p7b" -s -r localMachine Root


3 comments:

  1. I am having this problem too. Well at first my WLW would give me the error about the SSL/TLS secure channel. I messed with a few things and now I'm getting the error

    There was an error connecting to your blog. The underlying connection was closed. Unable to connect to the remote server. I tried your steps going into the console area and importing a certificate, but that didn't work either. I downloaded your Root CA file since I don't have another computer. Any other suggestions. I'm just beside myself that I can't use WLW and can't find any support that knows much. My emails is hulseys@msn.com if you can provide any help for me. THANKS!

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  2. actually i just fiddled with it again and now it is back to the ssl/tls error

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  3. Hi Jaime,

    What Operating system are you using?
    what happens when you try to import the root.p7b file?

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