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Trusted CA certificates are commonly stored in /etc/ssl/certs. Looking at the directory on my ubuntu server there's a bunch of certificate files and symlinks to certs in other directories as expect...
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Iizuki
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2025-09-23T07:46:24Z (12 months ago)
What are these weird hash symlinks to certificates in /etc/ssl/certs?
Trusted CA certificates are commonly stored in `/etc/ssl/certs`. Looking at the directory on my ubuntu server there's a bunch of certificate files and symlinks to certs in other directories as expected, but there are also these weird looking symlinks to the previously mentioned entities: `68dd7389.0 -> Hongkong_Post_Root_CA_3.pem` The link name looks like a hash of some kind, perhaps of the certificate file itself? As far as I can tell there's one for each "real" certificate in the directory. What are these hashy certificate links? What creates them, and what are they used for?