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Fatal errors on secure sites

These are messages about conditions that are directly fatal for the connection, and the connection will be shut down immediately, and the message is used to inform you about the cause of the failure.

Warnings may be sent by Opera, or by the server; the title of the window says which end sent the warning. Generally, a warning from the server indicates a problem caused by Opera, and vice versa.

The following fatal errors can be issued:

Handshake Failure
Some problem caused the (re)negotiation of the connection to fail. This may happen because you and the server could not find, common (enabled) encryption method or, less likely, by outside tampering with the data. Other reasons also exist.
Transmission Failure
Some problem occured during ordinary communication. This may happen because of illegal data or, less likely, by outside tampering with the data. Other reasons also exists.
Bad Certificate
The certificate could not be verified properly, this may be caused by a faulty signature on one of the certificates.
Access denied
The certificate was valid but you have specified that certifcates signed by one of the signers in the chain is not to be trusted.
Invalid Certificate Chain
The certificates in the chain of a received Server Certificate, or a certificate that is to be installed was not ordered properly.
Internal Error
Some local problem caused the connection to fail. One possible reason is out of memory conditions.
No Cipher Selected
You have not selected any encryption methods.
Security Disabled
You have disabled security.
No Cipher
You had not enabled any of the SSL version 2 encryption methods acceptable to the server. This message will only appear for SSL version 2, SSL version 3 gives a handshake failure message.

You may also receive messages about not having enabled SSL version 2 when connection to a server using only version 2, and you have not enabled it.

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