I deleted all my Keychain Certificates

Must have been during a rabid senior moment. Now I get all these untrusted certificate messages in email and Safari, and they are going into Keychain. However as best as I can tell, I need to obtain a Root Certificate from the Certificate Authority (CA) or the Issuer who appears to be VeriSign. Evidently one can spot the Root Certificate because they have nice golden borders vice the plain blue borders, and they are supposed to live in the X509Anchors. This is what I THINK that I understand. However, when I tried an online chat with a VeriSign rep. it rapidly went down hill and he talked about thousands of certificates and CAs etc. I did mention that to date every certificate that I have seen appears to have been issued by them; _VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5.cer_
I did get an email address and have tried the Keychain Access Certificate Assistant - Request a certificate from an existing CA. I am waiting to see what that will result in.
However, I am curious to see if there are others out there who have experienced this and if they have gotten a real fix.
Thanks,
DN

Hi DN, I've seen this a few times, the cure is to restore from a backup, copy from another machine, do an Archive & install, or try these...
http://web.fastermac.net/~bdaqua/X509Anchors.zip
http://web.fastermac.net/~bdaqua/X509Certificates.zip

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