ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Fri Oct 31 14:49:21 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 15:00 +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> > We should work with the upstream OpenSSL and the GnuTLS projects,
> and
> > motivate them to implement more advanced path building. This would
> be a
> > long term project.
> 
> Is there some issue with gnutls in F21? As far as I understand it
> should
> work as expected with the certificates removed.

It works as expected in the sense that GnuTLS can no longer handle major
web sites like Amazon and Kickstarter, this being the natural
consequence of removing a root before the certificates issued by it have
expired....
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