self-signed certificates (was Re: I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...)

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sun May 31 20:44:46 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200905 at gmail.com> said:
> It is a shame that there isn't a simple documented way to add other CA's
> to Firefox's approved list or some system global way to add CA's for all
> programs looking for pki certs.

For Firefox, you just have to publish the cert in DER format (with the
MIME type application/x-x509-ca-cert).  If you click on such a link,
Firefox will ask you if you wish to trust the cert (and what classes of
things you trust it for).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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