[oi-dev] crypto/ca-certificates

Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu
Thu Oct 28 20:27:15 UTC 2021


In regard to: Re: [oi-dev] crypto/ca-certificates, stes at PANDORA.BE said (at...:

> I tested building a 3.72 package but that also does not solve the problem.
>
> $ pkgrepo -s i386/repo/ list
> PUBLISHER NAME                                          O VERSION
> userland  crypto/ca-certificates                          3.72-2020.0.1.0:20211028T165026Z
>
>
> The problem remains for both 3.71 and 3.72 that
>
> $ pkg contents ca-certificates | grep DST
> etc/certs/CA/DST_Root_CA_X3.pem
>
> So the expired certificate remains in the package.
>
> I am not certain how this should be solved.

Red Hat's approach was to remove 'DST Root CA X3' from their packaged
ca-certificates bundle.

 	https://access.redhat.com/articles/6338021

I'm not certain how other popular Linux distros have addressed it, but
only a few distros do long-term support, so those would be the ones most
impacted by it.

Tim
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