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| author | Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat Jun 01 10:03:23 2013 +0000 (2013-06-01) |
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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.