Comment by ocdtrekkie
6 hours ago
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.