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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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