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From:
Tomasz Konojacki
Date:
December 10, 2021 16:45
Subject:
Re: OpenSSL alternative support WAS Re: Pre-RFC: support httpsout-of-the-box
Message ID:
20211210174526.CEF5.5C4F47F8@xenu.pl
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:37:19 +0000
Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:

> 1) What is the OS default certificate store on Windows (that we can assume
>    the OS handles updates and revocations), and what module is needed to
>    read it?

OpenSSL can't make use of it, so users rely on the certificates provided
by Mozilla::CA.

> 2) Are curl and wget likely to be found on Win32? Is there any command line
>    tool that a HTTP::TIMTOWTDI module can shell out to, to deal with https?

Windows ships with curl.exe since Windows 10 1803.

> 
> other question was
> 
> *) for bootstrapping how many (well, few) certificates do we need to ship?
>    and how often do these change?

Mozilla::CA is the module that provides SSL certificates. Unfortunately
it's almost always outdated so ideally we should get co-maint on it and
automate its updates.



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