Trusted Root Certificate Program
 

I am wondering if anyone has information regarding Trusted Root Certificate Programs. I am hoping that there may be a united program for this, but if not as many as people can find would be greatly appreciated. I am looking specifically for either Linux and UNIX related softwares, be it OS, standard browsers (emacs, Konqueror, Epiphany, Galeon, etc.), or other. I already have information regarding the programs for Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, and Opera as these are relatively easy to find.

What I am _not_ looking for is information on how to add it post-installation to a single box. I am looking to have the root CA cert ship with the product (like what happens for VeriSign, Comodo, GlobalSign, etc.).

There is no distro too big or too small for what I am looking for - if it exists we want the extra ubiquity. The company I work for is looking to be adding our root certificate to the trusted root store in the relatively near future (next few months) as we will be starting WebTrust validation soon. I think it would also be handy to have this posted for others to locate.

The best I have found searching here is an old article saying that a united trusted cert store would be a good idea.

Many Thanks to All in advance!

Most OSS programs just import the root CA bundle that ships with OpenSSL. Good luck convincing them that they should include your root CA, though. It's not a trivial task.

Sounds good - they were on the list anyways. I'm not too worried about convincing them - the company I work for has more than a little bit of sway and passing WebTrust should not be too much of an issue. Thanks again.

No dice... received this reply:
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The OpenSSL project does not have a root CA program and has decided to not supply root CA certificates with the toolkit.

Please checkout the FAQ:
How can I set up a bundle of commercial root CA certificates?
http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#USER16
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Sounds like they just don't have a root cert program. Any other thoughts on this?

Hmmm, I guess each distribution just builds their own CA bundle to ship with OpenSSL... every installation of OpenSSL that I've done (multiple OSs) has had a CA bundle with it. /shrug

I guess start with the big distributions and don't waste too much effort trying to chase each one down. If you contact Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, and FreeBSD that should cover the majority.