Dennis Darch wrote, On 2008-08-19 09:23:
> In the next update of our software product we are using NSS 3.11.9 to 
> upgrade our LDAP client to support LDAP/SSL.  I would like to include in our 
> documentation a list of the public certificate authorities that would be 
> trusted without having to be added to the client's cert8.db.  Where would I 
> look in the source code to find that list?

Maybe Frank can answer that.  I'm not aware of a page with a complete
listing of the trusted CA certs in an easy-to-read form.  Maybe I'm
forgetting something.

> A second but related question:  It is my understanding that if a customer 
> obtained a certificate for their LDAP/SSL server from some certificate 
> authority that was authorized (or whatever the precise term is) by one of 
> those default authorities, then we would expect the server to send the full 
> certificate chain to the client so that it would trust the server's 
> certificate.  Is that correct?

Yes, that is correct.  Full chain, up to the root, root itself is optional
since the client must already possess a copy.
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