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Chromium Dev: Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in existing Symantec-issued Certificates

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This link appeared in WDRL 175 on 24.03.2017.

Chromium Dev: Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in existing Symantec-issued Certificates

The Chrome team concluded an investigation on the Symantec Root Certificate Authority and now discusses when and how to distrust the entire authority due to having misissued over 30.000 certificates. If the entity is mistrusted, GeoTrust, Thawte, and other certificate authorities will be affected by the decision as well since they’re operated by Symantec.