Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:06:11PM +, Philipp Kern a écrit : > On 2011-08-23, Russ Allbery wrote: > > It seems strange to include a non-CA certificate in ca-certificates; we > > may need a different sort of infrastructure to handle things like this. > > (And I think it would be a bit questiona

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-08-23, Russ Allbery wrote: > It seems strange to include a non-CA certificate in ca-certificates; we > may need a different sort of infrastructure to handle things like this. > (And I think it would be a bit questionable to trust any certificate > signed by that certificate in a web browse

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-24 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Miguel (2011.08.23_22:34:47_+0200) > AFAIK, this certificate is only used to encrypt your AMIs and transfer them > securely to Amazon. In this way only you and Amazon know about the content > of your AMI, Amazon needs this in order to launch your AMIs in their cloud. That's what I've heard (alt

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Miguel Landaeta writes: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Hm, then it's not actually a CA, is it? > I'm afraid it is not a CA or it is not used as a CA by Amazon Web > Services users. However, it is necessary in order to use effectively > those web services. > If is not

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-23 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hm, then it's not actually a CA, is it? I'm afraid it is not a CA or it is not used as a CA by Amazon Web Services users. However, it is necessary in order to use effectively those web services. If is not reasonable to include this certifica

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-23 Thread graziano obertelli
On 08/23/2011 01:54 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Miguel Landaeta writes: >> Michael Shuler wrote: > >>> This is also my question - is this a CA that will be verifying and >>> signing other certs? (I'll try to dig on the same info, as well) > >> AFAIK, this certificate is only used to encrypt you

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Miguel Landaeta writes: > Michael Shuler wrote: >> This is also my question - is this a CA that will be verifying and >> signing other certs? (I'll try to dig on the same info, as well) > AFAIK, this certificate is only used to encrypt your AMIs and transfer them > securely to Amazon. In this w

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-23 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: > This is also my question - is this a CA that will be verifying and > signing other certs? (I'll try to dig on the same info, as well) AFAIK, this certificate is only used to encrypt your AMIs and transfer them securely to Amazon. In this w

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Shuler
On 08/22/2011 10:56 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > >> as per /usr/share/doc/ca-certificates/README.Debian, I am looking for >> additional signed recommendations for the addition of the Amazon Elastic >> Computer Cloud (EC2) public certificate to the ca-certificates packages. >

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2011, 12:47 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Although the files in this archive are distributed under the non-free Amazon > Software License (http://aws.amazon.com/asl/), I think that public certificate > is not subject to a licence, since it is not the product of an inte

Re: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > as per /usr/share/doc/ca-certificates/README.Debian, I am looking for > additional signed recommendations for the addition of the Amazon Elastic > Computer Cloud (EC2) public certificate to the ca-certificates packages. As someone not particularly familiar with the detai

Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.

2011-08-22 Thread Charles Plessy
severity 597537 normal thanks Dear all, as per /usr/share/doc/ca-certificates/README.Debian, I am looking for additional signed recommendations for the addition of the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) public certificate to the ca-certificates packages. In Ubuntu it is distributed in the euca2