Re: F-EOL versions of Firefox: How to remove co-opted Diginotar CA?

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On 09/06/2011 08:49 AM, Pasha R wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 09/06/2011 08:08 AM, Pasha R wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> For EOL FF versions, how can I remove the co-opted
>>>> Diginotar CA certificate? Instructions given by Mozilla
>>>> does not remove this certificate.
>>>>
>>>> If the root CA's cannot be manually removed, Is there
>>>> a FF rpm that has the fix?
>>> Uneducated guess: try running FF as root and then following
>>> instructions by mozilla
>> I already explained that the instructions given by Mozilla
>> does not work.  You can try to 'delete' DigiNotar per Mozilla's
>> instructions, having done that, and going back to check will
>> show that it still appears. This root CA is a built-in object...
>> so it cannot be deleted.
>>
>> Since there are no updates for end-of-life fedora versions, one
>> may have to backport the ca-certificates packages, since not
>> only Firefox is affected but many others such as Seamonkey,
>> Thunderbird, and many other applications, as Kevin Fenzi wrote.
>>
>> Now...  I need to figure out how to do a backport of ca-certificates
>> pkg so if anyone has any idea how this can be done, I am all ears...
>>
>>
> Instructions (almost) worked for me - CA is still displayed, but if
> you press "Edit trust" button, you will see, that all checkboxes are
> unchecked, so it will not be used for anything.
Why do you say: "(almost) worked" ?

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