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Security certificates for all my browsers

Newsgroups comp.security.misc, alt.computer.security
Subject Security certificates for all my browsers
From kathy <nospam@mail.invalid>
Message-ID <Xns9F9A6E6A78634835A1B@69.16.185.252> (permalink)
Organization TeraNews.com
Date 2011-11-11 10:51 +0000

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Would Microsoft's updates to a PC's certificates also work for my non-
Microsoft browsers?  

I don't know exactly how certificates work except that there is some 
hierarchy of trusted certificate providers.

As I understand it sometimes there are oversights in checking in which 
certificate providers got authorized, so updates have to be downloaded by 
PCs to let the PC know the latest list of trusted certificates.

I run XP and Microsoft's updater provides me with updates to security 
certificates.

My question is ....... would Microsoft's updates to a PC's certificates 
also work for my non-Microsoft browsers?  

I run Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Do I need to do update their certificates 
individually or would the Microsoft update also be used by them?

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Security certificates for all my browsers kathy <nospam@mail.invalid> - 2011-11-11 10:51 +0000
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> - 2011-11-11 09:32 -0500
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2011-11-11 12:23 -0600
    Re: Security certificates for all my browsers Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-11-11 16:48 -0500
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> - 2011-11-11 18:25 +0000
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers Edward Feustel <efeustel@hughes.net> - 2011-11-12 06:07 -0500

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