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CA certificates are located in /etc/ssl/certs as well as /usr/share/ca-certificates/ and in some cases /usr/local/share/certificates.

In general CA certs should not be manually added to the local trust store. There are reasons why certain CAs are not included. Without further research, it's unclear why this particular CA root cert was not included in Raspbian. It seems to be included in my Debian 'Buster' installation running Brave Browser.

All trusted CA certificates are added to a main trust store at etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt. The main trust store is updated through either through:

update-ca-certificates

or reconfiguring the ca-certificates package using:

dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

Procedure to add CA Certificates Manually

It's been awhile since I manually updated CA certs on a client machine. The following procedure worked on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Stretch:

Create a local cert directory:

mkdir /usr/share/ca-certificates/local

Download the CA cert:

cd /usr/share/ca-certificates/local
wget https://entrust.com/root-certificates/entrust_l1k.cer

Reformat the certificate into PEM:

openssl x509 -inform PEM  -in entrust_l1k.cer -outform PEM -out entrust_l1k.crt

Reconfigure the ca-certificates package:

dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

When prompted for what do to with new certificates, choose ask. And then select the entrust_l1k.crt with space.

Test that it works:

lynx https://www.philadelphiafed.org

And/or:

openssl s_client -connect www.philadelphiafed.org:443

The result of the working procedure is a logical link in /etc/ssl/certs to the certificate in /usr/share/ca-certificates/local and the new certificate being added to the trust store.

Hopefully, this tested procedure works for you.

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