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Root Causes 19: Death of a Public CA

May 28, 201914 min
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Episode description

Mozilla has decided to remove a public CA from its trusted root store. By doing so Mozilla renders public certificates from this CA essentially valueless for almost all use cases. Join our hosts as the examine the reasons for this decision, how CA rules are made and maintained, and why an action like this one ultimately is healthy for the internet as a whole.
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