Bash script: Trusted certificate chains to orapki wallet

I have created a script to add trusted certificate chains to an orapki wallet from the Linux command line, and there is no web browser needed. It reads sites from a list and adds the certificate chains of those sites to an orapki (auto login) wallet.

Usage

Start the script with ./certs_to_wallet.sh <path to wallet> . This will prompt you for a NEW wallet (auto login) creation. The old wallet will be backed-up. In case of permission of password errors, the backup will be restored.

It reads a wallet_sites.lst file from the current directory or the wallet directory. The wallet directory takes preference, so you can have a list of sites per wallet. A site per line will be processed and the certificate chain will be added to the given wallet (the last line should be empty).

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Internet Explorer 10 ‘Continue to this website’ option missing

I recently updated to Internet Explorer 10 (Windows 7 64bit) and when I browsed to a website with a security certificate problem: “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.”, the “Continue to this website (not recommended).” option was missing!!!

The issue here is that Microsoft restricted access to pages which are using a key using less than 1024 bits for protection. Some Oracle product using websites (including Oracle VM Manager) are still using this!

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