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

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Mon Sep 1 23:03:18 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 23:48 +0200, Kai Engert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is a heads-up for an update to the ca-certificates package that
> I've just submitted for updates-testing for Fedora 19 and 20.
> 
> The upstream Mozilla CA list maintainers have decided to start removing
> CA certificates that use a weak 1024-bit key. Although those
> certificates are still valid, Mozilla has worked with the CAs, and they
> did agree that it's OK to remove them.

Hey Kai,

This update has caused a lot of pain for Epiphany. Could you take a look
at [1] when you get a chance and help us figure out what's gone wrong?

Thanks!

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134602#c3
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