[Backport staging-next-25.11] cacert 3.117 -> 3.121#493496
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(cherry picked from commit 30ddbca)
Switch to fetching only certdata.txt directly from the upstream repository (and a mirror), because: - While it's possible to deduct that github/nss-dev is an NSS-project-owned mirror repository, it's not trivial: - Go to the homepage: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/security/nss/index.html - Navigate to the source, e.g. https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/source/nss/ - Check the readme.md, which mentions github.com/nss-dev/nss - GitHub is a mirror of the Mercurial repository, and while I was able to confirm that the latest version does match, it leaves more room for a malicious actor: - It's unknown who owns the nss-dev GitHub organisation, there's no public members and no contact information - The mirroring automation from Mercurial to GitHub is not documented - Git hashes by necessity don't match Mercurial hashes, so it's not easy to verify that they match - Previously the build and update script were more complicated and slow by depending on the entire source, when we really only need a single file. Furthermore, update the meta.homepage to point to the actual page that mentions the root certificates, because the old one pointed to a curl page which we don't even use anymore (if we ever even did, Git history is inconclusive) The cacert build was verified to be unchanged (cherry picked from commit 0e7826f)
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