Re: Should we include nss-certs out of the box?

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello!

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 03 2024, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>
>> It's been Guix policy to let people choose whether to install or not TLS
>> root certificates and which one to their machine.  While I applaud the
>> idea to have the users make a conscious decision about it, in practice I
>> suppose very few of us choose to *not* install any as that basically
>> breaks using web browsers, especially ones like IceCat which (by
>> default) ensures HTTPS is used on every page.
>
> I'd be surprised Icecat breaks from this as it uses its own cert
> database and allows HTTP when HTTPS doesn't work.

I didn't know Icecat had its own cert database.

About allowing HTTP, it can access pages using it, but not without going
through a "Continue despite security risks" dialog, and perhaps turning
off the HTTPS everywhere add-on for the page, which is installed by
default.

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Thanks,
Maxim