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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Root Certificate integration of DFN-PCA
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2002-02-22 9:57:52
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George Staikos wrote:

> On Thursday 21 February 2002 18:44, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
>> not really :-) You can import any signer into netscapes cert7.db 
>> without interference of lawyers, simply via the browser interface, 
>> no difference to KDE. The instructions on how to do so are on 
>> display at the DFN-PCAs handbook to OpenSSL, which is very complete 
>> and has been a great help for me in the past.
> 
> You can do that with konqueror too.  But we aren't shipping it in 
> there already.

And IMHO it's not really necessary to ship them with KDE because

1. The DFN-PCA certificate is mostly only useful for people working on 
german universities, etc. It's not of general interest.

2. It's really very easy for the users to import a root certificate. Of 
course they need to know the implications of doing so. I don't think 
this is a problem in this case (DFN) because the administrators of the 
university networks could import the certificate for their users.

Because of those two reason I vote against the inclusion of the DFN-PCA 
certificate into KDE. And this although I work at a german university 
and could certainly use this root certificate. I will simply import it 
on my own.

Regards,
Ingo
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