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DVA5743
Captain, B737-800
Joined on March 30 2008
Southeastern United States
24 legs, 32.1 hours
15 legs,
21.6 hours online 20 legs,
27.8 hours ACARS 2 legs,
2.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 14 2008 19:42 ET by Matt Mcknight
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You really need to be digitally signing software like the 767 gauge modules. First of all, it makes it a lot easier to trust the software when there is a digital signature. Second of all, I should be able to mark all software from your signature as "trusted" and not have to click the window in the image 100+ times. It really is a good practice and it takes all of 5 seconds to do from your development environment.
Matt McknightCaptain, B737-800
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DVA4069
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on February 18 2007
Everett 250 Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Six Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"War Eagle!" Southeastern United States
681 legs, 2,227.3 hours
478 legs,
1,098.5 hours online 607 legs,
1,936.8 hours ACARS 25 legs,
59.2 hours event
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April 14 2008 20:35 ET by J.T. Coston
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I have never seen that before, strange.
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DVA5743
Captain, B737-800
Joined on March 30 2008
Southeastern United States
24 legs, 32.1 hours
15 legs,
21.6 hours online 20 legs,
27.8 hours ACARS 2 legs,
2.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 14 2008 21:38 ET by Matt Mcknight
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Vista x64
Matt McknightCaptain, B737-800
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DVA4770
Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on July 21 2007
50 State Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
B757 100 Club
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
Globetrotter
Million Mile Club
Flying Colonel
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Everett Millennium Club
Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom
1,860 legs, 4,309.8 hours
5 legs,
9.0 hours online 1,841 legs,
4,251.0 hours ACARS
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April 16 2008 08:33 ET by Conor McEwan
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I encountered the same thing a few nights ago with the FSX B757-200.
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DVA1583
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on March 23 2004
Everett 250 Club
Online Six Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Seven Century Club
South America
710 legs, 1,938.2 hours
619 legs,
1,760.2 hours online 589 legs,
1,630.3 hours ACARS 16 legs,
61.2 hours event
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April 16 2008 09:39 ET by Charly Azcue
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It's made on purpose to check your patience, you really really wants the 757 / 767 in FS X ? then ht the "FS X Security Warning" box 50 times
It's a FS X warning security, It will happends not only on Vista but on XP too.
When I start FSX or select an aircraft to fly, I get a security warning message telling me the publisher could not be verified. What does it mean and what do I have to do?
- Third-party developed gauges and modules are verified when you start FSX or select an aircraft in the aircraft selection menu. When you install freeware add-ons or even add old FS2004 default aircraft, you might encounter this security message. It's nothing to worry about, if you're sure you want to use the new module or aircraft and you're sure that the publisher can be trusted, you should click "run". After that, another small screen will show, asking you if you want to designate this module as 'trusted' software. Click yes if you don't want being asked again, or click no if you want to use this software for this session only. Beware, some gauges are too old and will not work in FSX. NOTE: This is only an advise, you're doing this on your own risk.
Regards
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DVA4147
Captain, B727-200
COMM
Joined on March 06 2007
"Flying FSX online and on-time" Lexington Park, MD USA
62 legs, 94.0 hours
43 legs,
67.6 hours online 49 legs,
69.9 hours ACARS 14 legs,
25.9 hours event
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April 16 2008 10:21 ET by Ronald Ward
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Most freeware developers will not spend the money required to get a Certificate so they can digitally sign freeware gauges. Yes, it is a pain to click through all the warnings the first time, but at least you only have to do it once for each aircraft folder. Additionally you can also use the keyboard to hit R(un) and Y(es) alternatively to make the process go quicker. For the most part you can accept all these warnings from freeware developers. If a payware developer's aircraft has such a warning then you may want to check to make sure you have the correct version.
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DVA5743
Captain, B737-800
Joined on March 30 2008
Southeastern United States
24 legs, 32.1 hours
15 legs,
21.6 hours online 20 legs,
27.8 hours ACARS 2 legs,
2.7 hours event
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April 18 2008 15:42 ET by Matt Mcknight
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Self generated certificates are free. Trusted root authority (verisign, entrust, etc) issued certificates cost money. While the trusted root authority certificate would be the best because windows could verify the publisher, with a self signed cert, at least it would be digitally signed. The digitial signature would allow me to say I trust all software from this publisher (regardless of windows being able to verify). Then I wouldn't have to click 50 times and future software would be automatically trusted. Also, it provides the user peace of mind that no one has replaced the software on your servers with malware without your knowledge. This is analogous to a website with a self signed SSL certificate. Though your browser complains, you would rather be encrypting the traffic with SSL than sending it in plain text.
Matt McknightCaptain, B737-800
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DVA2086
Senior Captain, B767-300
E-MAIL
Joined on January 12 2005
Online Double Century Club
Six Century Club
50 State Club
Sharpsburg, GA USA
643 legs, 1,866.3 hours
505 legs,
1,417.9 hours online 418 legs,
1,380.2 hours ACARS 63 legs,
196.8 hours event
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April 18 2008 15:51 ET by Chris Williams
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Using your website analogy, I'd much rather send text in plain text then with a self signed SSL certificiate. You're likely to run into a man in the middle attack with a self signed SSL certificate.
You seem to know about self generated certificates. I would e-mail Luke if I were you and see if he'd like some assistance in maybe providing certificates for future releases.
Chris WilliamsSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic" Marietta, GA
2,241 legs, 8,967.3 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,899 legs,
7,760.4 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,277 legs, 9,102.2 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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April 18 2008 16:24 ET by Luke Kolin
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The problem is that the gauges aren't created by DVA, so I cannot sign them, if I understand correctly.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA5225
Captain, CRJ-200
Joined on November 20 2007
"Nothing said I had to crash" Florence, CO USA
99 legs, 199.9 hours
16 legs,
43.6 hours online 7 legs,
12.1 hours ACARS 3 legs,
7.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 18 2008 18:11 ET by Danny Wood
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Who cares who made it. Just as long as I get to fly it.
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DVA5743
Captain, B737-800
Joined on March 30 2008
Southeastern United States
24 legs, 32.1 hours
15 legs,
21.6 hours online 20 legs,
27.8 hours ACARS 2 legs,
2.7 hours event
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April 18 2008 22:31 ET by Matt Mcknight
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Chris, a man in the middle attack is a lot more difficult to perform than reading plain text across the wire!!!! You are right to be concerned about submitting your personal information over SSL when the certificate is invalid, but would you rather submit your personal data with no SSL? Same deal with software. I would rather have an "invalid" (merely not issued by a trusted root authority) digital signature on the executables/assemblies than no signature at all.
Luke, if you don't have the code, you are right you cannot sign the output. Oh well.
Matt McknightCaptain, B737-800
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