[Bug 205992] Re: hardy cacert RA niet seen by firefox -3

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:44:29PM -0000, liorda wrote:
> Hi Alexanser,
> 
> I believe whoever installs the ca-certificates package really wants to
> trust the CAs included in it, *system wide*.
> 
> As a maintainer of websites that uses cacert certificates, It's much
> easier to ask the user to install that package rather to install the
> certificate itself. It's even more important since now firefox won't
> even let you browse the page without the ca certificate installed.
> 
> this bug is not about the default certificates installed with firefox.
> it is about whether or not to allow to user the easily (and knowingly)
> trust more CA (the most common ones) to ssl and internet browsers.
> 
> please tell me if i'm missing the point.
> 

Well the package might get pulled in automatically by some other
package, so its not always an explicit decision by the user. Better
safe than sorry.

However, at some point we should have an extension or something tha
allows the user to select those root certificate easily in "Import
Certificate ..." dialog.

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status wontfix

 affects ubuntu/xulrunner-1.9
 status wontfix

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status wontfix


 - Alexander


** Also affects: xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Won't Fix

** Also affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Won't Fix

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hardy cacert RA niet seen by firefox -3
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