guardianproject / cacert

A slightly more vetted version of the Android CACert keystore
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Pin directly to debian/mozilla key store #7

Closed abeluck closed 11 years ago

abeluck commented 11 years ago

Turns out we don't really have the resources or power to fully curate our own CA store. So I removed the wording that implied we did, and while I was at it gave the README a spruce up.

Also, instead of relying on /etc/ssl/certs, we now pull the ca bundle directly from the debian source tree.

We do this by fetching the git source of ca-certificates as a submodule, verifying the latest git tag, then building the trusted PEM list from Mozilla's store.

I also updated to BouncyCastle 147 to correspond with changes to NetCipher that I'll be pushing.