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Bug#597537: Looking for seconds to add the Amazon EC2 public certificate in ca-certificates.



On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Michael Shuler <michael@pbandjelly.org> wrote:
> This is also my question - is this a CA that will be verifying and
> signing other certs? (I'll try to dig on the same info, as well)

AFAIK, this certificate is only used to encrypt your AMIs and transfer them
securely to Amazon. In this way only you and Amazon know about the content
of your AMI, Amazon needs this in order to launch your AMIs in their cloud.

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