Re: what can go in root.crt ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: what can go in root.crt ?
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Msg-id 00d02578e39a6cc268e171efa5dd5da99c3e345e.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: what can go in root.crt ?  (Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>)
Responses Re: what can go in root.crt ?  (Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>)
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On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 08:25 -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> > I feel bad about bending the basic idea of certificates and trust to suit
> > some misbegotten bureaucratic constraints on good security.
> 
> Can you elaborate on what, in the email message you replied to here,
> represented a bending of the basic idea of certificates and trust?
> 
> I didn't notice any.

I was referring to the wish to *not* use a self-signed CA certificate,
but an intermediate certificate as the ultimate authority, based on
a distrust of the certification authority that your organization says
you should trust.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe




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