NSS
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Overview
Network Security Services (NSS) comprises a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with optional support for hardware TLS/SSL acceleration on the server side and hardware smart cards on the client side. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of cryptographic libraries supporting Transport Layer Security (TLS) / Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and S/MIME.
Certificates
Location on Linux: /etc/pki/nssdb
certutil
certutil -L -d /etc/pki/nssdb
More certutil usage examples: http://serverfault.com/questions/498588/smtp-gmail-com-from-bash-gives-error-in-certificate-peers-certificate-issuer
Create a New Certificate Database and Import Google's Certificate
Create the new directory that will become the home of the new certificate database:
cd ~/tmp mkdir certs