Re: [Lynx-dev] Ssl certificate error

[David Woolley]

On 12/09/2021 18:02, dan d. wrote:
> SSL error:certificate has expired-Continue? (n)

I would take that at face value, and assume that it is the site's 
certificate that has expired.  In that case, the secure solution is not 
to access that site until the site has updated its certificate.

Certificates expire because cryptographic advances can compromise them 
and because, the longer a single private key is used, the more 
opportunity there is for someone to crack it.

If I'm right about it being a problem for the site, rather than for 
Lynx, you need to make a judgement as to how concerned you would be if 
someone had access to the contents of your session with the site, and 
whether you are making critical decisions based on the site providing 
the correct data.  If these cause significant concern, you should not 
override the warning.  If you don't care, you can safely override, but I 
don't think there is a way of registering a permanent override.