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Andrea Barisani wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:08:38AM -0500, solar wrote: |
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>>On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 16:55 +0100, Andrea Barisani wrote: |
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>>>Regarding the inclusion of ca-certificates as a PDEPEND (yeah a brief |
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>>>exchange of emails already happened on -dev but since it's not so easy to |
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>>>track it I'm lagging behind on this) I would like to express that I really |
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>>>don't like the fact that we are "trusting" cacert.org certs (among others) |
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>>>without providing it as a choice. |
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>>>Despite all the political views that we can throw in favour of a "cacert.org |
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>>>are trying to make the SSL certs world less evil" argument this is some major |
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>>>policy that we are supporting and it shouldn't be taken that lightly (I don't |
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>>>remember such a major confrontation about this) and I really don't think this |
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>>>should be a default policy but rather user's choice. Technically cacert.org |
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>>>is not a recognized CA in the "proper" way (and don't point that a proper CA |
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>>>is a lame concept and a snake oil thing..this is not the point). |
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>>>[CCing security@g.o because this concerns the team as well imho.] |
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>>>Just my 2 eurocent. |
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>>>P.S. |
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>>>I know that firefox doesn't trust /etc/ssl/certs by default, dunno about |
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>>>konqueror. The point is still relevant though. |
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>>Do you think the PDEPEND of the ca-certs should be tied to a USE= flag? |
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>>If so should it be a 'no*certs' flag or a USE=cacerts ? |
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> USE=cacerts sounds the proper course of action to me. |
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I was just `emerge world -vDatu --newuse` on some ~x86 boxen and I saw the new (at least to me) |
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cacert ebuild getting pulled. Although, I support cacert.org and use it occasionally, I also think |
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making it the default is a bit too quick for now. Making it a useflag might be better. |
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Are there any other packages like cacert now? Didn't see any, but time will tell. |
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Might be a better solution to have a more general ebuild that installs CA certs and it will have |
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different (local) useflags. |
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Just my 2 non-dev Japanese yen :-) |
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Kalin. |
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