com.apple.ubiquity.peer certificate

[negativepitch]

hi,
I am running Lion 10.7.5
I have just been having a nose around, and noticed in my keychain that I have a com.apple.ubiquity.peer certificate with a load of numbers and letters after it, and it says it is not trusted,
I have changed it to trust, however I notice that the certificate expired on the 19th october 2012, doest this make any difference, and should I change it back to untrusted ?
I have clicked on the certificate to see what it is, and near the bottom it says,
key usage, verify wrap drive,
critical, yes
purpose, email protection
as im a complete novice/newB to all this, any advice would be great, in simple to understand terms if possible.
many thanks

 

[justperry]

hi,
I am running Lion 10.7.5
I have just been having a nose around, and noticed in my keychain that I have a com.apple.ubiquity.peer certificate with a load of numbers and letters after it, and it says it is not trusted,
I have changed it to trust, however I notice that the certificate expired on the 19th october 2012, doest this make any difference, and should I change it back to untrusted ?
I have clicked on the certificate to see what it is, and near the bottom it says,
key usage, verify wrap drive,
critical, yes
purpose, email protection
as im a complete novice/newB to all this, any advice would be great, in simple to understand terms if possible.
many thanks

Do you have any gear from this company or connect to a network controlled by them?

 

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Do you have any gear from this company or connect to a network controlled by them?

forgot to say and change in my profile, Im in the UK, I think it may be my sky wireless router, and sky also supply my email.
Im not sure if the company in your link has anything to do do with this, or even know how to find out.

 

[gnasher729]

hi,
I am running Lion 10.7.5
I have just been having a nose around, and noticed in my keychain that I have a com.apple.ubiquity.peer certificate with a load of numbers and letters after it, and it says it is not trusted,
I have changed it to trust, however I notice that the certificate expired on the 19th october 2012, doest this make any difference, and should I change it back to untrusted ?

Anybody, including any evil hacker, in the world can create a certificate named "com.apple.ubiquity.peer certificate". Nobody except Apple should be able to create a certificate with that name that your computer trusts. By changing such a certificate to "trusted" you may be giving a hacker a chance to attack your computer.

 

[justperry]

forgot to say and change in my profile, Im in the UK, I think it may be my sky wireless router, and sky also supply my email.
Im not sure if the company in your link has anything to do do with this, or even know how to find out.

It's expired so I wouldn't worry about it, Don't know if you can delete it, if you can just delete it, otherwise just leave it as untrusted.
I have a few expired ones in my keychain, those are built into the System and can't be deleted afaik, they don't bother me.

The identifier only brings up this company, they are reliable.

I did a search on google, found one on Apple, says it's probably iCloud.

Also on another thread:

It's part if the iCloud Doucment syncing system. Apple internally calls it "Ubiquity" which is the ubd process.

The keychain items you are seeing are the peer-to-peer keys that are setup so that devices on the same network (Macs, iOS devices) can send their iCloud documents directly to each other instead of routing up to the 'Cloud' and then back down to a device that is sitting on the same physical network. Save bandwitch, faster, etc..

 

[negativepitch]

It's expired so I wouldn't worry about it, Don't know if you can delete it, if you can just delete it, otherwise just leave it as untrusted.
I have a few expired ones in my keychain, those are built into the System and can't be deleted afaik, they don't bother me.

The identifier only brings up this company, they are reliable.

I did a search on google, found one on Apple, says it's probably iCloud.

Also on another thread:

ok cheers for that, I'll untrust it again, I can delete it, but think I will just leave it, I have done a good few searches and came up with the same thing as you, icloud (beta?)
anyways, I thought it might be something to worry about,
thanks for all your help