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On 03/17/2017 04:38 PM, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> Package: ca-certificates
> Severity: normal

What version of ca-certificates?

> The ca-certificates package includes legacy root certificates which have
> 1024-bit RSA keys. These are considered weak by modern standards, and
> have been removed from the upstream Mozilla trust store.

Please, be specific: what 1024-bit roots?

> For a while these were needed to workaround a bug in OpenSSL X.509 path
> building logic, but that bug has since been resolved so these are now
> vestigial and a risk.

ca-certificates version 20140927 removed the 1024-bit certificates when
updating the mozilla CA bundle to 2.1.

Please, provide some details about your installation, otherwise, this
was fixed long ago.

-- 
Kind regards,
Michael

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