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Hi, |
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:34:59 -0500 |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> just a heads up ... i'm going to be adding the ca-certificates package as a |
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> PDEPEND to the openssl package so most everyone in Gentoo will end up with it |
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> on their system |
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> for those wondering what this is: |
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> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/ca-certificates |
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> basically it's additional certificates that arent part of the default openssl |
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> distribution |
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I'm not so sure that this is a good idea, as adding CA root |
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certificates is a way to make (good) money for some free projects and |
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unfortunately for some non free ones too. I'm not sure if openssl |
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charges certificate inclusion, but if it does this will interfere with |
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the founding policies (and then development) of openssl. |
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Now, being a little bit less ideological, I think it is perfectly ok to |
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add certificates from some organizations like CACert.org that try to |
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make security free for all Internet users as well as open source |
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projects' certificates (like debian ones). But it should be up to |
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businesses to buy they're way into openssl by the means of this |
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"sponsoring". |
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So my suggestions is to add root certificates only for non for profit |
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organizations. (For intermediate certificates that already have root |
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certificate bundled with openssl it ok in all cases). Or at last don't |
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make it a RDEPEND but an einfo "you may want to intall X for Y reason". |
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> this will inadvertently fix this fun bug: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/101457 |
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> and probably more in the future |
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In this king of cases it is probably better to ask upstream to bug |
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they're CA to "sponsor" openssl or use some free CA. |
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Yuri. |
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