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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def verify_certs(*args):
    '''
    Sanity checking for the specified SSL certificates
    '''
    msg = ("Could not find a certificate: {0}\n"
            "If you want to quickly generate a self-signed certificate, "
            "use the tls.create_self_signed_cert function in Salt")

    for arg in args:
        if not os.path.exists(arg):
            raise Exception(msg.format(arg))