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Special Forums Cybersecurity SSL Certificate Stores Post 302901150 by Perderabo on Monday 12th of May 2014 10:39:16 AM
Old 05-12-2014
Well, I can poke around on my own workstation and get answers that apply to it. Not sure about your setup. openSSL first... In /etc, I found my openssl.cnf file. It says:
Code:
dir             = ../../CA              # Where everything is kept
certs           = $dir/certs            # Where the issued certs are kept
crl_dir         = $dir/crl              # Where the issued crl are kept
database        = $dir/index.txt        # database index file.

So now I know where my openSSL certs are stored. Those directories are empty as I expected. I don't know anyone who actually uses openSSL. But openSSL has a magnificient crypto library. Everybody installs openSSL to get access to that library. It is a prerequisite to openSSH. This leads people to think that SSH uses SSL, but it doesn't. The openSSH guys just did not want to rewrite that crypto library.

Since my openSSH cert database is empty but my firefox can talk https, a reasonable guess is that firefox must use its own database. The docs say it is per user and stored under .mozilla somewhere in a file called cert8.db. It needs to get seeded with a list of trusted top-level guys. I don't know how firefox does that. I hope it calls home at profile creation time to get the most recent list from firefox.com.

A much more interesting question is how does someone become a trusted top level certificate authority? So for example, where Go-Daddy decided to get into the business, how do they get themselves added to the list? To phrase it another way, if I wrote a new browser, how would I get a definative list? (besides just copying a list from a pre-existing browser) If anyone knows, please post a followup.

My guess is that Chrome also keeps its own list.
 

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