overriding certificate verification in windows8

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I am trying to use a self-signed certificate in a ssl socket on windows8 consumer preview. I am getting this exception:

Exception : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800B0109): A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800B0109 .

Is it possible to override the validation of ssl certificate ? Something like remotecertificatevalidationcallback , which does not seem to be accessible on windows8.

Thanks a lot in advance.

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c#sslwindows-8
Add yourself to the trusted CA list. windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/… – Ritch Melton
I do not want to add manually. I would like to programmatically override it because the client and the server trust each other and just want to encrypt the data with server's public key. – pkumar0

1 Answers

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In Silverlight (which has a very similar security model), there is no way to go around a SSL error in a connection. The only workaround in my case was a server side proxy hiding the SSL errors.

I doubt that you'll find a way to do insecure connections in Win8's sandbox (same as in Silverlight).