wok-current view cacerts/description.txt @ rev 16535
linux-source: update deps
| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Mon Apr 28 07:52:49 2014 +0000 (2014-04-28) |
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| children | f29d4912ea56 |
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1 The Public Key Inrastructure is used for many security issues in a Linux system.
2 In order for a certificate to be trusted, it must be signed by a trusted agent
3 called a Certificate Authority (CA). The certificates loaded by this section
4 are from the list on the Mozilla version control system and formats it into
5 a form used by OpenSSL-1.0.1e. The certificates can also be used by other
6 applications either directly of indirectly through openssl.