On 2/27/25 8:17 AM, Barry wrote:

On 27 Feb 2025, at 10:39, Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote:

But how to update the cert file? Which one is it or will the next firefox 
update replace it?
I would have assumed that the cert is shipped with firefox itself.

There is a signed trust list that every browser vendor provides.  It gets updated whenever a new cert is add.  It possible is included in each update even when not changed.

But it is there, I just have to find the one that was installed when I built the system and copy it over the old cruft I moved over.

Tahar ElGamal, a student of Rivest at MIT, holds the patent (long expired) on SSL and the approach of a trust list of root certs.  He was one of my mentors a few decades ago.  His SSL got us off ground zero and gave us a path for deploying X509 certs for trust-building.  I have been in countless discussions of the various approaches to trust.  I myself am the author of the Bridge CA model (circa '98) used in a few PKIs.

This doesn't mean I cannot shoot myself in the foot at times, overlaying the new list with an old one!

It is SO EASY!!! to step in the do-do.

As Robert Frost said so well:

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."


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