Comment by oasisbob
12 hours ago
It's been a while since there was a good CA death penalty case.
Given Wayne's hints in the timeline that this issue was discovered by an agent, it might be one of the first big corporate death sentences due to AI?
12 hours ago
It's been a while since there was a good CA death penalty case.
Given Wayne's hints in the timeline that this issue was discovered by an agent, it might be one of the first big corporate death sentences due to AI?
I bet Entrust never made a cert with a private key of 4.
The problem is the death penalty case is aimed at the wrong target: The entire Web PKI system remains dumb and bad, and the correct answer is to dissolve the CA/B and find people with practical security experience.
Entrust (now Sectigo) is involved with this [0] (cross signed an intermediate) [1] Even last year buying a Sectigo cert got you an Entrust cert with no mention of Sectigo/Comodo[2] (maybe more of a Character.AI situation than a sale)
[0] https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/roots.json
[1] https://www.entrust.com/company/newsroom/entrust-sells-publi...
[2] https://www.sectigo.com/comodo
> Entrust (now Sectigo) is involved with this
This is probably a rough definition for "Entrust was banned from being a CA and sold the business off to a competitor". In part, because I also do not think the root programs would just allow Entrust to continue operating the same business under another brand name, unless they are even dumber than I already thought.