Section: misc
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>
+Uploaders: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.1.16), po-debconf
Build-Depends-Indep: ruby
Standards-Version: 3.5.9
Architecture: all
Depends: openssl, ${misc:Depends}
Enhances: libssl0.9.8, openssl
-Description: Common CA Certificates PEM files
- It includes the followings PEM files of CA certificates
+Description: Common CA certificates
+ This package includes PEM files of CA certificates to allow SSL-based
+ applications to check for the authenticity of SSL connections.
.
- * spi-inc.org certificate
- * db.debian.org certificate
- * debconf.org certificate
- * Mozilla builtin CA certificates
- * CACert.org certificates
- * Brazilian Government Certificate
- * Signet CA certificates
- * QuoVadis CA certificates
+ It includes, among others, certificate authorities used by the Debian
+ infrastructure and those shipped with Mozilla's browsers.
.
- This is useful for any openssl applications to verify
- SSL connection.
- .
- Note that certificate authorities whose certificates are included in
- this package are not in any way audited for trustworthiness and RFC
- 3647 compliance, and that full responsibility to assess them rests
- with the user.
+ Please note that certificate authorities whose certificates are
+ included in this package are not in any way audited for
+ trustworthiness and RFC 3647 compliance, and that full responsibility
+ to assess them belongs to the local system administrator.
+