How to trust own CA for OpenVAS

Please note that the named VT doesn’t work with anything like “trusted CA” and thus adding one wouldn’t prevent it from reporting.

Instead it works on a fixed list of issuer names of a certificate defined in the if( check_for == "untrusted_ca" ) { part of ssl_func.inc and reports accordingly.

The reason is if one of such issue names are in use there is usually something really “fishy” going on on the target / connection which requires a closer look.

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