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

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On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 15:28 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 09.09.2014 um 08:26 schrieb Adam Williamson:
> > certificate_list
> >       This is a sequence (chain) of certificates.  The sender's
> >       certificate MUST come first in the list.  Each following
> >       certificate MUST directly certify the one preceding it.  Because
> >       certificate validation requires that root keys be distributed
> >       independently, the self-signed certificate that specifies the root
> >       certificate authority MAY be omitted from the chain, under the
> >       assumption that the remote end must already possess it in order to
> >       validate it in any case
> 
> sure?

Well, I mean, that's what's written down in the RFC, you can go read it
for yourself. I'm not setting myself up as the world's leading authority
on TLS, I need at least another fifteen minutes of googling before I do
that. ;)
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