Turns out, this is relatively easy to solve, there's just no GUI for it as of yet. (As of 12/3/2009.)
As far as I know, this only works with the daily build from the chromium-daily ppa on Launchpad.
<small>It might work on the official chrome build, if it works, please tell us.</small>
-if you're running Debian or Ubuntu, you can add "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main" to your
-/etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get update
+If you're running Debian or Ubuntu, you can add "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main" to your
+/etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get update.
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<h3 id="getting_certs">Installing Certificates</h3>
<p> The simplest thing to do is go to the <a href="https://ca.mit.edu/ca/">usual web interface</a> and follow the instructions to install certs normally.