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Re: Packaging the certificate bundle (was Re: Two Requests of Mine)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:33:18 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> Here's another "solution": it seems that OpenSSL supplies a set of
> certificates of its own, and everybody (well, at least Linux distributions)
> seems to put them in the fixed location /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt.

Speaking of this bundle, I can't find it in the OpenSSL source tree.

We had this debate a while ago when it was suggested that we should detect and
use this one.

I recall reading somewhere that OpenSSL does not provide a ca cert bundle on
purpose.

Can we figure out where this comes from?

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Received on 2004-10-18