I confirmed this by doing:
aborrero@tools-sgebastion-08:~$ csharp -e 'new System.Net.WebClient ().DownloadString ("https://jobs.toolforge.org")' System.Net.WebException: Error: TrustFailure (A call to SSPI failed, see inner exception.) ---> System.Security.Authentication.AuthenticationException: A call to SSPI failed, see inner exception. ---> Mono.Btls.MonoBtlsException: Ssl error:1000007d:SSL routines:OPENSSL_internal:CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED [...]
For comparision, that commands outputs the whole HTML page of a HTTPS site with a cert it trust:
aborrero@tools-sgebastion-08:~$ csharp -e 'new System.Net.WebClient ().DownloadString ("https://www.nuget.org")' | grep body <body>\r </body>\r
By the time of this writting, the mono version being used in Toolforge stretch grid is:
aborrero@tools-sgebastion-08:~$ apt-cache policy mono-runtime mono-runtime: Installed: 5.12.0.226-0xamarin3+debian9b1 Candidate: 5.12.0.226-0xamarin3+debian9b1 Version table: *** 5.12.0.226-0xamarin3+debian9b1 1001 1001 http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia stretch-wikimedia/thirdparty/mono-project-stretch amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status