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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SSL-Certificates and CAcert
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:15:13
Message-Id: 46FBFDFE.9050104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] SSL-Certificates and CAcert by Andrew Gaffney
1 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
2 > Hanno Böck wrote:
3 >> I think compared to self-signed, having cacert-certificates would be
4 >> a big improvement. Many other free software projects (and more and
5 >> more other pages) use cacert, so it becomes more and more likely that
6 >> people will already have the cacert-root-cert installed.
7 >
8 > How does a CAcert certificate help? Their own certificate for
9 > https://www.cacert.org/ can't be verified by Firefox 2.0.0.7, which
10 > tells me that their CA isn't trusted by default.
11 >
12 Yes, however a lot of people have their cert imported into their browser
13 and they provide a method for importing the their CA into your browser.
14 Where's the Gentoo CA for me to import into my browser?
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