Re: Any advantage of using SSL with a certificate of authority? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vick Khera
Subject Re: Any advantage of using SSL with a certificate of authority?
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In response to Re: Any advantage of using SSL with a certificate of authority?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
Right. I know of no mechanism to verify a certificate via a public CA
through SSL.  Browsers have a list of trusted certificates, but SSL
alone doesn't, as far as I know.

SSL as a library/protocol has mechanisms to verify the certificates. The list of certificates that are trusted is left to the implementation. Most people install the mozilla cert bundle and use that.

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