ca-certificates
brew install ca-certificates
v2026-05-14
MPL-2.0
Mozilla's CA certificate bundle for TLS/SSL validation in command-line tools and libraries.
Why you might care
Provides a trusted root certificate store used by curl, wget, and other CLI tools to verify HTTPS connections. Essential system dependency for any shell workflow involving HTTPS requests; many Homebrew formulae link against it. Extracted and maintained from Mozilla's NSS store.
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Links
- https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html
- Brew formula source: Formula/c/ca-certificates.rb
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