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: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:15:33 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87obt27u2y.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> <87bop6skyp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <828vk9b7z3.fsf@gmail.com> <83sjihz2kq.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipjclqk0.fsf@lifelogs.com> 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 1329138962 29205 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2012 13:16:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:16:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 13 14:16:01 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 1RwvlA-0001Mw-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:16:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RwvlA-0004oP-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwvl2-0004oJ-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwvl1-00028o-Fb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:15:52 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwvl1-00028g-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwvks-000171-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:15:42 +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 ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:15:42 +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 ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:15:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 33 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:YcQy7F9oPvFaos4snanJB8pDAUw= 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:148543 Archived-At: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:29:36 +0000 Andy Moreton wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:45:25 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> EZ> Thanks. FWIW, there's also >> EZ> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates >> EZ> for the user's certificates. But what I see there, in both locations, EZ> are binary blobs, not anything like what Ted showed. ... AM> Please do not read these registry keys - you will almost certainly end AM> up using revoked certificates (e,.g. diginotar), and duplicating the AM> work of the existing system APIs but with added bugs. AM> Please read the following articles: AM> Certificate Status and Revocation Checking - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki AM> AM> How Certificate Revocation Works AM> AM> There is lots of information there about how this works for various AM> Windows versions. As I said later, the complexity of this task indicates we should use the certutil.exe binary or something like it. I am not excited to spend hours reverse-engineering Microsoft's certificate storage strategy and it would be a brittle solution in any case since it changes with W32 releases. Ted