NTS: config and initialization

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Mar 8 06:54:45 UTC 2019


> Let us not call it the "cookie key", lets use the terminology of the RFC. 

Please suggest a file name.


>> I'm assuming that the system defaults will cover 99+% of the normal
>> cases.  I don't have to do anything special for my browser to work.
> Because your browser includes its own cert store!  Or it was customized for
> your distro.  There is no "normal" case. 

I assume the distro provides a reasonable collection of trusted root 
certificates.  It's not only my browser that just works, but also other 
browsers and lynx and curl and I don't know what else.

I don't plan to duplicate that effort.  Do you want to?

On Fedora, it's the ca-certificates package.

Name         : ca-certificates
Version      : 2018.2.26
Release      : 2.fc29
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 943 k
Source       : ca-certificates-2018.2.26-2.fc29.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
>From repo    : fedora
Summary      : The Mozilla CA root certificate bundle
URL          : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CA-Certificates
License      : Public Domain
Description  : This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the
             : Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet PKI.


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