Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Shared System Certificates

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 01/25/2013 04:19 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/24/2013 12:30 PM, Stef Walter wrote:
> 
>> So yes, as noted in the 'Detailed Description' of the feature, long term
>> we hope to follow this up with further work to make all the crypto
>> libraries be able to process the information in its entirety.
> 
> Okay.  In the long term, it might make sense to offload the entire
> certificate chain validation to a daemon, so that it's possible to get
> consistent behavior across crypto libraries and allow system
> administrators to specify more detailed policies (but please not as
> Javascript code).

Yeah, I agree with that in principle. In fact it's been tried before
with libpkix. But in any case, doing this is a gargantuan task outside
the scope of what we're taking on here right now.

Cheers,

Stef

-- 
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux