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Re: Chinese root CA issues rogue/fake certificates


From: George William Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:33:18 -0700



On Aug 31, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org> wrote:

there's just waaaay too many sites using WoSign (and StartCom) for the
CAs' roots to just be pulled.  Sad, but true.

Not even.  Pull away.

I'd be surprised if most business continuity people could even name their
cert provider, and most probably don't even know how certs come to exist or
that they *can* be made useless on a wide scale by the actions of,
seemingly, an unrelated third party.

Not in my neck of the woods.  If you have a drought of good ones in your area my consulting company calls that an 
opportunity... 

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