On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 14:26 +0200, Hubert Kario wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2015 11:22:26 Kathleen Wilson wrote:
> > 2) Remove included root certs that only have the Code Signing trust
> > bit enabled. To our knowledge, no one is using such root certs via
> > the NSS root store.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the project, but Fedora Shared System 
> Certificates[1] does use Mozilla Root list and it does encompass Java 
> trust stores so Code Signing bits at the very least _should_ be used, if 
> not already are used.
> 
>  1 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SharedSystemCertificates

It's correct that Fedora and Red Hat Linux (and potentially other Linux
distributions, too) use the code signing trust information for a systemwide
trust store, and applications can use it to verify signatures on code.

Kai

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