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

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at redhat.com
Fri Oct 31 19:37:16 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> This isn't a recent change, see [1]. I presume Amazon is most likely
> still broken in Epiphany (when these roots are removed) as there's been
> no action on [1], where we decided that gnutls-cli accepted
> www.amazon.com because it uses certs if they're valid for either email
> or TLS, whereas GLib only uses certs if they're valid for TLS.
> Note that due to CDN magic, sites like Amazon load lots of subresources
> like images and CSS over connections using unrelated certs, so a more
> reliable test is to actually open the web page in a browser.
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134602

I've reassigned the original bug to gnutls and closed with next release (F21). A fix for F20 is very hard to occur and would most probably introduce unncessary issues. If anything remains, feel free to reopen with more information. 

regards,
Nikos


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