On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 16:03 -0500, Paul Mossman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just to confirm, the patch attached to
> http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-6850 is no longer required right?

That patch appears to do several things... some of them would still be
useful.

> My understanding is that CAs added under System -> Certificates are now
> automatically put into the Java truststore (upon sipXecs reboot.)
> Therefore, we no longer plan to have a "SSL Truststore" menu item.

The new scheme is that CA certificates are installed by validating them
and then copying them into the authorities directory.  When the sipXecs
service is started, all authorities in that directory are incorporated
into the truststore used by Java applications (the C++ applications use
the contents of the directory directly).

Whether or not sipXconfig should be able to restart the entire sipXecs
service, which is part of that patch, is an interesting question.  It's
a big hammer, but one that we need to get the Java applications to
notice newly installed certificates (its own or those of CAs).

> The outstanding work item for getting the import working is to have the
> Google CA installed by default?

We have a packaging decision to make with regard to what CA certificates
(if any) we will include, and if we include any, whether they will be
part of one of the sipXecs rpms or distributed in some other way.

I have read in the OpenSSL project release notes (of versions we are not
yet using) that they have decided not to continue including a default
bundle of CA certificates in their distributions.  The rationale is that
installing a CA certificate is declaring a trust relationship, and that
that decision it is not the proper business of an open source project.
I am personally sympathetic with that view, but it does create another
potential inconvenience... 


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