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Date:      Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:30:16 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        d@delphij.net, Ben Laurie <benl@freebsd.org>, gecko@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@freebsd.org>, re <re@freebsd.org>, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Proposal: Install a /etc/ssl/cert.pem by default?
Message-ID:  <99544.1404401416@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmsoJCnCpnGKUXe0jnPEgGNm3BB_SF73vLOkK5X9pOoPw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <53B499B1.4090003@delphij.net> <53B4B7FB.6070407@FreeBSD.org> <53B56F49.7030109@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxgmsoJCnCpnGKUXe0jnPEgGNm3BB_SF73vLOkK5X9pOoPw@mail.gmail.com>

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In message <CAF6rxgmsoJCnCpnGKUXe0jnPEgGNm3BB_SF73vLOkK5X9pOoPw@mail.gmail=
.com>, Eitan Adler writes:
>On 3 July 2014 07:57, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 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.

I think this makes a lot of sense: FreeBSD is not in the trust-business
and have no benefit from trying to enter it.


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