<dd>
<p>This directive specifies the directory where the CA key, the CA certificate and the trusted CAs file
are located.</p>
+ <p>The permissions should only let <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> admin access the directory.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Examples:</dt>
<dd>
<dt>Notes:</dt>
<dd>
<p>This directive specifies the name of the CA certificate file in ".crt" format.</p>
- <p>It can be generated with: openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.crt
- -days 3650</p>
+ <p>The file is used by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to generate website certificates when
+ https filtering is enabled with the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#ENABLE-HTTP-FILTERING"
+ target="_top">enable-https-filtering</a></tt> action.</p>
+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> clients should import the certificate so that they can
+ validate the generated certificates.</p>
+ <p>The file can be generated with: openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out
+ cacert.crt -days 3650</p>
</dd>
<dt>Examples:</dt>
<dd>
</dd>
<dt>Notes:</dt>
<dd>
- <p>This directive specifies the directory where generated TLS/SSL keys and certificates are saved.</p>
+ <p>This directive specifies the directory where generated TLS/SSL keys and certificates are saved when
+ https filtering is enabled with the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#ENABLE-HTTP-FILTERING"
+ target="_top">enable-https-filtering</a></tt> action.</p>
+ <p>The keys and certificates currently have to be deleted manually when changing the <a href=
+ "#CA-CERT-FILE" target="_top">ca-cert-file</a> and the <a href="#CA-CERT-KEY" target=
+ "_top">ca-cert-key</a>.</p>
+ <p>The permissions should only let <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> admin access the directory.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Examples:</dt>
<dd>
<dt>Notes:</dt>
<dd>
<p>This directive specifies the trusted CAs file that is used when validating certificates for
- intercepted TLS/SSL request.</p>
+ intercepted TLS/SSL requests.</p>
<p>An example file can be downloaded from <a href="https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem" target=
"_top">https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem</a>.</p>
</dd>