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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ca-bundle.crt | 42 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ca-bundle.crt b/lib/ca-bundle.crt index d60b91110..6c0bec9eb 100644 --- a/lib/ca-bundle.crt +++ b/lib/ca-bundle.crt @@ -1,18 +1,40 @@ ## ## $Id$ ## -## ca-bundle.crt -- Bundle of CA Root Certificates -## Last Modified: Thu Mar 2 09:32:46 CET 2000 +## Last Modified: Thu Mar 2 09:32:46 CET 2000 +## (although we removed a cert from it in March 2003) ## -## This is a bundle of X.509 certificates of public -## Certificate Authorities (CA). These were automatically -## extracted from Netscape Communicator 4.72's certificate database -## (the file `cert7.db'). It contains the certificates in both -## plain text and PEM format and therefore can be directly used -## with an Apache+mod_ssl webserver for SSL client authentication. -## Just configure this file as the SSLCACertificateFile. +## This is a bundle of X.509 certificates of public Certificate Authorities +## (CA). These were automatically extracted from Netscape Communicator 4.72's +## certificate database (the file `cert7.db'). ## -## (SKIPME) +## This file is to be treated as an example file these days, as it is very +## outdated (it being last modified year 2000 should tell) and should be +## replaced with a much more modern and up-to-date version. +## +## In the cURL project we've decided not to attempt to keep this file updated +## since deciding what to add to a ca cert bundle is an undertaking we've not +## been ready to accept. +## +## Today, with many services performed over HTTPS, every operating system +## should come with a default ca cert bundle that can be deemed somewhat +## trustworthy and that collection (if reasonably updated) should be deemed to +## be a lot better than this old file. +## +## If you want the most recent collection of ca certs that Mozilla Firefox +## uses (which should be seen as the effictive successor of Netscape 4.72 from +## where this particular bundle originates from), we recommend that you +## extract the collection yourself from Mozilla Firefox, or by using our +## service setup for this purpose: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html +## +## Due to the licensing of that particular file, we've decided to not simply +## include that in the curl package/tree. It is of course arguable whether the +## cacerts themselves actually are licensed under the Firefox's licenses but +## until proven otherwise we will assume so and thus we avoid putting them in +## any curl release/tarball. +## +## For more details on CA certs, how to use them with curl and a little about +## what they're good for, see http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html ## ABAecom (sub., Am. Bankers Assn.) Root CA |