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annotate cacerts/description.txt @ rev 14468
add tidy; up bc 1.06.95, tidy receipt; add compface* & xbm2xface; add cacerts [ looking current BLFS book (2013-04-27) ]
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Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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Wed May 01 01:06:46 2013 +0000 (2013-05-01) |
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1 The Public Key Inrastructure is used for many security issues in a Linux system.
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2 In order for a certificate to be trusted, it must be signed by a trusted agent
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3 called a Certificate Authority (CA). The certificates loaded by this section
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4 are from the list on the Mozilla version control system and formats it into
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5 a form used by OpenSSL-1.0.1e. The certificates can also be used by other
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6 applications either directly of indirectly through openssl.
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