Re: [PATCH] HTTPS/TLS CA certificates in base

2023-08-20 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 2023-08-20 08:12, Taylor R Campbell wrote: [---] Rhetorical Devil's advocate question: What's the potential blast radius for the worst case scenario where a CA's private key is compromised before its certificate expires and a bunch of NetBSD users don't update their bundle for two years?

Re: [PATCH] HTTPS/TLS CA certificates in base

2023-08-20 Thread Greg Troxel
Overall I like this. Thank you for listening to the various comments and coming up with a mechanism that is configurable for almost all possible policies that have been expressed. I'd like to see three things handled (which might be already): 1) a way for a user to install a CA cert (as a tr

Re: [PATCH] HTTPS/TLS CA certificates in base

2023-08-20 Thread Taylor R Campbell
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:38:01 -0400 > From: Greg Troxel > > I'd like to see three things handled (which might be already): > > 1) > > a way for a user to install a CA cert (as a trust anchor -- I think it > would be good for docs to use pkix terminology) that is not part of > the mozi

Re: [PATCH] HTTPS/TLS CA certificates in base

2023-08-20 Thread David Brownlee
There was a previous thread that mooted the idea of using the project built mozilla-rootcerts packages (which are just tarfiles) as the source for some mechanism to populate on-system certificates, such as your proposed certctl. (mozilla-rootcerts is the base package which just populates into PREFI

Re: Android-like NetBSD

2023-08-20 Thread Chris Hanson
On Aug 5, 2023, at 12:11 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > As for 'external SDK', that would be "install some other OS and cross > build", but when you cross build for android or ios, you do that from a > system which is a full install. This isn’t the case for the Apple platforms; Xcode comes with sysr

Re: [PATCH] HTTPS/TLS CA certificates in base

2023-08-20 Thread Taylor R Campbell
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:32:38 +0100 > From: David Brownlee > > There was a previous thread that mooted the idea of using the project > built mozilla-rootcerts packages (which are just tarfiles) as the > source for some mechanism to populate on-system certificates, such as > your proposed cert