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* Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates
  @ 2021-06-01  4:45 99%   ` J. Roeleveld
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From: J. Roeleveld @ 2021-06-01  4:45 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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





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