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| author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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| date | Fri Dec 30 01:56:58 2016 +0200 (2016-12-30) |
| parents | d805d3de4546 |
| children | 55fda8af462e |
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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.