In article 9e95e98f983d77f1ae79dd3604f89fa8.squirrel@vali.starlink.edu, Timothy Pearson trinity-devel@lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
There are a number of places where KDE "does its own thing" although standard and more modern libraries have come along since KDE was developed. SSL certificate management is another one, and one that particularly concerns me in the light of the number of certificate revocations lately.
If a modern, widely-available and maintained library does a better job than an old (small) internal library in TDE, a bug report should be filed as a feature request to use the new library.
Note that these bug reports may take a long time to resolve, depending on the size of the library to be replaced.
Thanks for the guidance, Timothy. I realise something like changing the SSL certificate handling would be quite a massive job, of course. But libmagic might be do-able. I'll have a look when time permits.
Nick