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Re: Shipping SSL certificates in the base system



On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 05:27:06PM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:
> agc made the argument that including certificates is similar to
> including time zone data, which we do. We do not tell users to install
> a package to use non-UTC timezones, for instance.

The only problem I see is that outdated timezone data doesn't
necessarily have a real world impact. Outdated root CAs can.

Joerg


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