The certs are not hard-coded into IE at all...

While in IE6, go to

Tools->Internet Options

Click on the Content Tab
Click on the Certificates Button
Click on Trusted Root Certificat Authorities

Then select the entire list (click on first one the
  shift-click the last one)
And click the export button.  This will export in
PCKS #7. (name the file certs.p7b)

Then issue this openssl command line option to convert
to a more readable (PEM) format:

openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -outform PEM -in certs.p7b -out certs.pem 
-print_certs

If you'd like more detailed info about the certificates
just append a  -text  to the above command line ...

Then you've got a perfect PEM file for use with openssl!!!
(and is newer than the one provided by mod_ssl)


-Brad


Roberto Rodrigues - McLean wrote:
> still there.
> 
> thank you.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lutz Jaenicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:14 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Trusted CA list
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:18:06PM -0400, Roberto Rodrigues - McLean wrote:
> 
>>Is the Trusted CA list (with the respective CAs public keys) available
>>anywhere ? Internet Explorer has it hard-coded, now and then we see some
>>patch coming from MS that updates the ROOT CA list. How does Netscape (or
>>Mozilla) check the CAs signatures ? Do they also have the list ?
>>
>>Does Verisign pay Microsoft to put the list in the Browser or MS pays
>>Verisign for the list ?
>>
>>Finally, if one is writing a new browser, how can it be capable of
> 
> verifying
> 
>>the authenticity (signature) of the certificates received from servers
>>without having the respective CAs public keys to check the signature with
> 
> ?
> 
> The extracted list usable for OpenSSL should be included in the
> mod_ssl package (or at least it used to be, didn't check recently).
> 
> Best regards,
>       Lutz


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