Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

[Fannys]

On June 1, 2021 4:45:45 AM UTC, "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote:
>> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zcampe@×××××.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

Is there actually any tool that can let me pick my certificates?
If i go and start deleting randomly certificates from regimes i dont like will there be any "breaking change"? 
I suppose firefox uses its own certificate store though.

Marinus