[arch-dev-public] cacert certificate now recognized by all browsers (hopefully)

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 12:26:08 EDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I add a small patch from Debian to nss yesterday which applies the cacert root
> certificate. Some time ago I also made KDE and Qt to use the certs from the
> ca-certificates package which includes the cert from cacert.
>
> So, Arch is now one of the distros where those cerst are supported.
>
> BTW: we might now be able to use such a cert for e.g. dev.archlinux.org.
>
> PS: ATM I am testing what happens when archlinux.de is exclusively accessible
> via https.

I actually did get a cert from cacert a while back, but it was no
different than self-signing, so I believe I just went with that. Feel
free to switch to cacert if you want, I got an email recently about
the one I got expiring soon


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