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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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OpenSSL NSS
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