Mozilla Distrusts Certificates From WoSign, StartCom

ronjor · Oct 25, 2016

By Eduard Kovacs on October 25, 2016

Mozilla has decided to revoke trust in new WoSign and StartCom certificates, despite the steps taken by the companies in an effort to address the issues found by the web browser vendor.
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Krusty · Nov 1, 2016

Google to untrust WoSign and StartCom certificates

Following similar decisions by Mozilla and Apple, Google plans to reject new digital certificates issued by two certificate authorities because they violated industry rules and best practices.

The ban will go into effect in Chrome version 56, which is currently in the dev release channel, and will apply to all certificates issued by certificate authorities WoSign and StartCom after October 21. Browsers rely on digital certificates to verify the identity of websites and to establish encrypted connections with them.

Certificates issued before October 21 will continue to be trusted as long as they're published to the public Certificate Transparency logs or have been issued to a limited set of domains owned by known WoSign and StartCom customers.
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ronjor · Nov 3, 2016

Why Browser Vendors Chose to Distrust 2 Certificate Authorities

By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted 2016-11-02
Google, Apple and Mozilla will not recognize SSL/TLS certificates from WoSign and its affiliate StartCom in 2017. Here's a look at the implications.
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Minimalist · Jul 8, 2017

Google Chrome's HTTPS ban-hammer drops on WoSign, StartCom in two months

Google in two months will conclude its prolonged excommunication of misbehaving SSL/TLS certificate authorities WoSign and subsidiary StartCom, a punishment announced last October.

Chrome security engineer Devon O'Brien, in a Google Groups post on Thursday, said Google last year began limiting its trust of certificates backed by the companies to those issued before October 21st, 2016, and has been winnowing whitelisted hostnames over the course of several Chrome releases.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/07/google_ban_hammer_drops_on_wosign_startcom_in_two_months/

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