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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Go Daddy root certificates
From:       Martin Koller <kollix () aon ! at>
Date:       2011-07-25 10:18:05
Message-ID: 201107251218.09895.kollix () aon ! at
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On Monday, 25. July 2011 02:10:56 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 de July de 2011 14:51:34 Gary Greene wrote:
> > On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Martin Koller wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > can anyone answer the case https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277319 ,
> > > please ?
> > Honestly, I really wish that Mozilla/KDE/Google/Wget/<insert FOSS group that
> > has their own root certificate store here> would get together on fdo and
> > create a common project that the root certificates could be aggregated at
> > instead of each project doing it themselves...
> 
> The answer is: STOP distributing our own certificates. Rely on Qt's support, 
> which also doesn't distribute certificates. The burden then falls on the system 
> integrator (the distros), which will select a root CA package that they feel 
> confident about.
> 
> They're also the ones who can roll out security updates directly to the users. 
> We can't.

How does the resolution process work here in KDE - I mean: who has the final say that KDE
stops (or doesn't stop) to deliver the certificates ?

Can I close mentioned bko entry as INVALID or WONTFIX ?

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Martin
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