On 09/10/2011 10:31 AM, Grant wrote:
>>> I just noticed this at the end of my openssl emerge:
>>>
>>> * Running 'c_rehash /etc/ssl/certs/' to rebuild hashes #333069 ...
>>> WARNING: Skipping duplicate file cert_igca_rsa.pem [ ok ]
>>>>>> dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0e merged.
>>>
>>> Since SSL is so critical I thought I should run it by you guys.  Is
>>> this something I should fix?  I get:
>>>
>>> # updatedb && locate cert_igca_rsa.pem
>>> /old-backup-dir/etc/ssl/certs/cert_igca_rsa.pem
>>> /etc/ssl/certs/cert_igca_rsa.pem
>>
>> I notice I have these two symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs:
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      9 Sep  7 05:23 3ee7e181.0 -> IGC_A.pem
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 Sep  7 05:23 3ee7e181.1 -> cert_igca_dsa.pem
>>
>> After a bit of poking around I see that the ca-certificates package
>> installs one cert under two different names:
>>
>> /usr/share/ca-certificates/gouv.fr/cert_igca_rsa.crt
>> /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/IGC_A.crt
>>
>> I don't know where the 3ee7e181 symlinks get their names, but I notice
>> that the duplicate cert is actually the cert_igca_rsa.crt, not the dsa
>> cert.  That's a bit confusing, but at least it led me to the answer.
> 
> Nice sleuthing!  I can't say I completely understand, but everything
> is OK as-is?

I don't see how it could be exploited -- but that's not much comfort
for either of us ;)


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