wok-next view cacerts/description.txt @ rev 20424
linux-dev: move creation to compile_rules(), keep genpkg_rules() for copying/splitting only
| author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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| date | Fri Jan 12 17:02:57 2018 +0200 (2018-01-12) |
| parents | d805d3de4546 |
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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-1.0.2a. The certificates can also be used by other
6 applications either directly of indirectly through openssl.