Show HN: A tool for creating custom TLS CA bundles

by Lukasa • 12 years ago

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timmclean2• 12 years ago

Trust exactly who you want to trust... as you download certificates from a random person's server.

But seriously, great idea, but wouldn't this be better as a command-line tool installable via a package manager? At least then it could be audited.

Lukasa2• 12 years ago

Yes indeed, and you can do just that. The API server is open-source[1], and it's been Dockerized. Anyone who's really paranoid should absolutely run the server themselves.

[1] https://github.com/Lukasa/mkcert

timmclean2• 12 years ago

That's great! Thanks for open sourcing it. I really don't think there's much value though if it's not self-hosted -- it just adds another point of failure to the CA system.

Edit: what if this were built into Firefox? Could the certificate manager accommodate some UI improvements and an export feature?

0x0• 12 years ago

OK, but you could also just run "dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates" or use Keychain Access to mark undesirable authorities "Do Not Trust".

xvilka• 12 years ago

World need wider adoption of DANE instead.

ris• 12 years ago

"If you still don't trust us, we encourage you to download the source, build it yourself and run the service on your own hardware."

Or you could just download debian's ca-certificates package and cat together all the .crt files you choose into a .pem. Much quicker & simpler.

Show HN: A tool for creating custom TLS CA bundles

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