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Automatically converted CA Certs from mozilla.org

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We provide automated conversions. The output CA bundle file in PEM format is available from here:

The PEM file contains the datestamp of the conversion and we try to only convert if there's a change in either the script or the source file.

These ca cert bundles do not contain the DigiNotar certificates as Mozilla marks them as untrusted and this script knows the markup for that, but it may contain related certificates that Mozilla (and others) would block using other means. (Like some certs that were cross-signed by Entrust etc). See details in bug #1178.

The mk-ca-bundle.pl script

The mk-ca-bundle tool converts Mozilla's CA cert bundle to PEM format, suitable for (lib)curl and others. Writtten by Guenter Knauf.

Requirements

It is a perl script. The script uses the 'openssl' tool and it requires the version that comes with the 0.9.7 series or later.

The exact Mozilla file needed for this job is found within that script.

CA bundle license

This new file is only a converted version of the original one and thus it is licensed under the same licenses as the Mozilla source file: MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL 2.1

Convert from your local Firefox installation

You can also extract the ca certs off your Firefox installation, if you just have the 'certutil' tool installed and run the firefox-db2pem.sh script!

What - no HTTPS?

Yes, pointing out that this contents is not hosted on a HTTPS site is a popular thing to do but really it doesn't help anyone, nor does it bring any news.

  1. If you don't trust the data or want to be more certain: run the script yourself
  2. Offering the data over HTTPS would give you a chicken-and-egg problem as which CAs would you trust when you download the bundle?
  3. You're free to run your own caextract service on a HTTPS site to redeem this. The scripts and everything we use to offer data on this page are available in the curl source code tree.

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