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updated cacerts (20190517 -> 20200522)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Wed May 27 17:52:58 2020 +0100 (2020-05-27) |
parents | f29d4912ea56 |
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1 The Public Key Infrastructure 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-1.0.2a. The certificates can also be used by other
6 applications either directly of indirectly through openssl.