From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: need help with certificate bundles for ALL the platforms Emacs supports Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:37:50 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bop6skyp.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4F25FA2F.2010401@gmail.com> <4F27F4A1.6030907@gmail.com> <6E4BE1E758D04283A7C3A660ED379966@us.oracle.com> <87liolnipl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <50081AA79F2F4860A3B9DCEDFC1ABEC8@us.oracle.com> <877h04nc2e.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83ehucfjc8.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4ycjbjz.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <83mx8zev8s.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcnnj1xm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ipjgw0r3.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <83liobaleu.fsf@gnu.org> <87lioau9bc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83hayy1yb2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328891900 32104 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2012 16:38:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:38:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 10 17:38:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RvtUI-0007j2-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:38:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvtUH-0001yB-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:38:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvtUC-0001xh-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvtU5-0005Oc-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvtU5-0005OH-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RvtTz-0007VR-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:37:59 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:37:59 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:37:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IsgliyyYVr9PIG/WKxjN3+0xNn4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148438 Archived-At: On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:51:45 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ted Zlatanov >> The question is how to obtain one reliably, and all my research leads me >> to believe that W32 doesn't have it. EZ> This URL: EZ> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc962104.aspx EZ> and also a few others seem to indicate that each Windows user has EZ> his/her certificates in this directory: EZ> C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My\Certificates EZ> I do have such a directory on my XP box, but it is empty. Meanwhile, EZ> the application that is used on Windows to browse certificates does EZ> show a long list of certificates I allegedly have on this box. EZ> On another XP system I did see files in the above directory, but they EZ> were binary files, unlike the contents you show: That's unfortunate. I'll assume for now that on W32 we have to supply our own certificate bundle through the GNU ELPA package, until someone comes up with a better solution. I think that's acceptable since we're simply mimicking Mozilla's CA choices, and we can make incremental improvements to gnutls.el as we find out more about each platform. Thanks! Ted