wok-6.x annotate cacerts/description.txt @ rev 17865
Up: cacerts (20150325)
author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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date | Wed Mar 25 17:21:43 2015 +0200 (2015-03-25) |
parents | d805d3de4546 |
children | 55fda8af462e |
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al@14468 | 1 The Public Key Inrastructure is used for many security issues in a Linux system. |
al@14468 | 2 In order for a certificate to be trusted, it must be signed by a trusted agent |
al@14468 | 3 called a Certificate Authority (CA). The certificates loaded by this section |
al@14468 | 4 are from the list on the Mozilla version control system and formats it into |
al@17865 | 5 a form used by OpenSSL-1.0.2a. The certificates can also be used by other |
al@14468 | 6 applications either directly of indirectly through openssl. |