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author | Paul Issott <paul@slitaz.org> |
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date | Fri Oct 28 21:15:17 2016 +0100 (2016-10-28) |
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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.