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Date:      Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:27:13 -0230
From:      Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        d@delphij.net, Ben Laurie <benl@freebsd.org>, gecko@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>, re <re@freebsd.org>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?
Message-ID:  <53B56F49.7030109@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <53B4B7FB.6070407@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <53B499B1.4090003@delphij.net> <53B4B7FB.6070407@FreeBSD.org>

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Bryan Drewery wrote:
 > libfetch will now look in /usr/local/etc/ssl/ before /etc/ssl.

How very sensible!


> I like the idea of secteam maintaining a ca-root-freebsd.pem even
> better, as long as you are willing to.

Just my $.02, but if the FreeBSD project is to maintain a 
ca-root-freebsd.pem, I think it should have one certificate in it: the 
root FreeBSD Project cert. Beyond that, I'm not willing to vouch for the 
trustworthiness of any CA, and I don't think the Project should either.

Let people install CA bundles from packages, even give admins the choice 
of "the Mozilla bundle" vs "Dr Guru's paranoid bundle" vs whatever, but 
I don't think the Project should be in the business of endorsing any 
particular CA in the base system.


> IMHO always install it, don't depend on MK_OPENSSL. Is the file actually
> specific to OpenSSL? Ports would love to have it be available all the
> time regardless of SSL library choices.

Or we could patch the OpenSSL port to use /usr/local/etc/ssl too?


Jon
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Jonathan Anderson
jonathan@FreeBSD.org



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