* Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates
@ 2021-06-02 7:23 99% ` J. Roeleveld
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From: J. Roeleveld @ 2021-06-02 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 12:28:49 AM CEST Fannys wrote:
> On June 1, 2021 4:45:45 AM UTC, "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> >On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zcampe@gmail.com wrote
> >>
> >> > 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs needs update.
> >> >
> >> > For certificates I would expect the old and invalid ones to be
> >
> >replaced
> >
> >> > by newer ones without user intervention.
> >> >
> >> Looking through them is "interesting". There seem to be a lot of
> >>
> >> /etc/ssl/certs/????????.0 files, where "?" is either a random number
> >
> >or
> >
> >> a lower case letter. These all seem to be symlinks to
> >> /etc/ssl/certs/<Some_Name>.pem. Each of those files is in turn a
> >> symlink to /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/<Some_Name>.crt. How
> >
> >much
> >
> >> do we trust China? There are a couple of certificates in there named
> >> /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/Hongkong_Post_Root_CA_1.crt and
> >> /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/Hongkong_Post_Root_CA_3.crt. Any
> >> other suspicious regimes in there?
> >
> >I've always wondered about the amount of CAs that are auto-trusted on
> >any
> >system. Including several from countries with serious human rights
> >issues.
> >
> >I could do with a tool where I can easily select which CAs to trust
> >based on
> >country.
> >
> >--
> >Joost
>
> Is there actually any tool that can let me pick my certificates?
> If i go and start deleting randomly certificates from regimes i dont like
> will there be any "breaking change"? I suppose firefox uses its own
> certificate store though.
If the CA is removed from your system/app/..., any key signed by that CA will
be seen as "untrusted" (treated as if self-signed) and you need to go through
the usual hoops to allow that certificate to be used.
--
Joost
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