[GH-ISSUE #378] install esdsa root ca not supported #250

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opened 2026-02-25 22:32:57 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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Originally created by @beckend on GitHub (Jun 29, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/issues/378

installing by supplying CAROOT when the root CA is of type esdsa yields error:

ERROR: failed to read the CA key: unexpected content

Originally created by @beckend on GitHub (Jun 29, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/issues/378 installing by supplying `CAROOT` when the root CA is of type esdsa yields error: ```shell ERROR: failed to read the CA key: unexpected content ```

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@FiloSottile commented on GitHub (Apr 26, 2022):

mkcert only supports roots it generated itself. This is intentional as it limits the maintenance cost. However, I'll work on extracting the truststore code into a library #45, so a more general-purpose CLI tool can be built on top of it.

@FiloSottile commented on GitHub (Apr 26, 2022): mkcert only supports roots it generated itself. This is intentional as it limits the maintenance cost. However, I'll work on extracting the truststore code into a library #45, so a more general-purpose CLI tool can be built on top of it.