Daniel Stenberg wrote, On 2008-08-18 14:07:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
> 
>> OpenSSL does not have a root-certificate program.  The official
>> position (from http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#USER16) is that
>> the job of OpenSSL is to create the code to make trust possible, not
>> dictate who to trust.
>>
>> In fact, that same FAQ entry has a pointer to an article on extracting the 
>> certificates from Mozilla's certdata.txt. (I don't know if that file even 
>> exists in the current source, though; if it doesn't, perhaps it might be 
>> nice to send them a message on how to extract from the .db files?)
> 
> I'd love to read such a description.
> 
> (I even host such an "extration service" that provides the Mozilla bundle as 
> a 
> PEM file... so yes, that file still exists!)

Since NSS's certutil program outputs PEM files, that's a pretty simple
shell script.  No need to use certdata.txt at all.
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