Bring the VBScript version more in line with the perl version:
- Change timestamp to UTC.
- Change URL retrieval to HTTPS-only by default.
- Comment out the options that disabled SSL cert checking by default.
- Assume OpenSSL is present, get SHA256. And add a flag to toggle it.
- Fix cert issuer name output.
The cert issuer output is now ansi, converted from UTF-8. Prior to this
it was corrupt UTF-8. It turns out though we can work with UTF-8 the
FSO object that writes ca-bundle can't write UTF-8, so there will have
to be some alternative if UTF-8 is needed (like an ADODB.Stream).
- Disable the certificate text info feature.
The certificate text info doesn't work properly with any recent OpenSSL.
This changes the previous check for untrusted certs to a check for
certs explicitely marked as trusted.
The change is backward-compatible (tested with certdata.txt v1.80).
Christian Heimes brought to our attention that the certdata.txt
format has recently changed [1], causing ca-bundle.crt created
with mk-ca-bundle.[pl|vbs] to include untrusted certs.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/11/msg00411.html
The official Mozilla page at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/
points out a new place as the "proper" place to get Mozilla's CA certs from
so this script is now updated to use that instead.
Reported by: Daniel Mentz
The script works exactly same as the Perl one except for one thing:
when the text descriptions generated with openssl are included then
the md5 fingerprints are missing; seems openssl has either a bug or
a feature which prints the md5 fingerprint output to stdout instead
of writing them to specified file; this script could here do the same
as what the Perl scripr does (redirect stdout into file) but this
makes the script take up double the time because it needs to launch
cmd.exe 140 times (fo each openssl call). So I think for now we just
ommit the md5 fingerprints, and see if openssl will be fixed.
